Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
The Santa Ana Pueblo or Tamaya Pueblo (also Tamaiya Pueblo, located Tamayame call - ' people of Tamaya ', the traditional name of the pueblo ) are among the Pueblo peoples and speak Eastern Keres, considered Insulated language today. The name derives from the Spanish name for Saint Anne, as the Spaniards named their missions to saints of the Catholic Church. Many missions were again erected in germ cells of new Pueblo communities or adjacent to existing pueblos to missionary work among the Indians.
The Pueblo is located in the southwestern United States on the Rio Grande in New Mexico, between the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The lack of arable land and irrigation water has led to the practical task of the Pueblo of Santa Ana. Most tribal members now live in Ranchos de Santa Ana, a farming community on the Rio Grande near Bernalillo, north of Albuquerque. Only a few people remained behind to guard the Pueblo.
History
In 1598, Juan de Oñate was looking for the Pueblo Tamaja on, which he renamed in Santa Ana, and there was a mission built in the 17th century. At the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 united Santa Ana, San Felipe and Santo Domingo its armed forces to drive out the Spanish settlers from their land.
Pedro de Posada, the Governor of El Paso, in 1687 led an attack against Santa Ana and burned the village. The fugitives were joined by the survivors of Zia and built a Pueblo on the Red Mesa near Jemez as protection against the Spaniards.
Culture
The present church of Santa Ana dates from the year 1734 and could contain parts of the old mission. In Santa Ana are active celebrations, in which the population returns to its Pueblo to host ceremonial dances. At all other times of Pueblo is closed to visitors.
As a result of the reintroduction of pottery in the 1940s there again Pottery in limited quantities. Crosses made of wood with inlaid straw ( a folk art acquired by the Spaniards ) and small, painted wood carved animals are also prepared. The U.S. census in 2000 yielded 589, of which 400 permanent residents, in the approximately 77 -acre reserve.