Spanish settlers established small communities in the Taos valley, south of Taos Pueblo, after the Spanish reconquest of the region in 1692. Ranchos de Taos, established in 1725, was...
Unlike many of the missions in New Mexico, St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero was a labor of love, built as a gift to the Mescalero Apache over the...
El Santuario de Chimayó is a small Catholic church about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. The church itself is a beautiful example of Spanish Colonial architecture. It is one...
Zuñi Pueblo is the largest of the 19 New Mexican Pueblos, covering more than 700 square miles, with a population of over 10,000.
Mission Building in Zuñi Pueblo
The Zuñi encountered...
Laguna Pueblo
The Laguna lived on the banks of the Rio San José in west-central New Mexico for thousands of year. They arrived long before the advent of written records.
Laguna...
Charles Lummis was a journalist interested in historic preservation and indian rights. He traveled through New Mexico in the 1880s. The stark landscapes had a visceral impact on him.
And in...
The Tompiro People
The people that settled Abo at the end of the 11th century were part of the Tompiro group, the same group that established pueblos at Quarai and...
There have been four settlements near the current pueblo of Santo Domingo within the last few centuries due to floods. Gipuy was about 2 miles east of the current...
