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Isleta Lakes Recreational Complex and tribal casino. Pueblo of Isleta ( Southern Tiwa: Shiewhibak [ʃiexʷibʔàg], Western Keres: Dîiw'a'ane [tîːwˀa̤ʔane]; Navajo: Naatoohó [nɑ̀ːtxòːxó]) is an unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established in the c. 14th century.
Originally established about 1200 A.D., the Isleta Pueblo is home to the Tiwa tribe, descended from remote Shoshoncan stock, the first people to enter the Americas some 30,000 years ago. Due to its location on a strip of land projecting from the Rio Grande, the conquering Spaniards gave the pueblo the name of Isleta, meaning “little island.”.
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An early image of the San Agustín de la Isleta mission. NPS Museum Collection. As years passed, tensions between Spanish and Indigenous inhabitants subsided and their daily lives gradually intertwined. Many descendants of the Tiwa refugees returned via the Camino from the south to Isleta Pueblo in 1709 and 1718, bringing with them a Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indigenous) culture that ...
May 29, 2014 · The church at Isleta became the site of a Holy Pilgrimage and the rising of the Padre’s 63-year-old intact corpse, a miracle. It was, and is still rumored that these remains are the remains of ...
Oct 22, 2015 · The exhibit recounts the story told by the people of the Isleta Pueblo, a Native American community in New Mexico, of when the arrival of American soldiers and explorers in the mid-1800s changed their world dramatically. Divided into three parts, the exhibit describes the traditional year where the community lived by the seasons, with regular sequences of ceremonies and rituals and practices ...
Today Isleta is the largest of the pueblos on the river, and probably the best known. Its church, despite a rich history of alterations, has an excellent claim on the title "oldest in New Mexico," embodying as it does portions of foundation and walls built in or about 1613. The pueblo's proximity to Albuquerque has accorded it maximum exposure.
In 1692-3, Vargas reconquered the Pueblo country. The Crown allowed mission work to resume. In approximately 1710, the original pueblo was reoccupied by the Isleta people. A new mission was established there under the name of San Agustín. With the growth of the Spanish settler population, the Native American missions decreased in importance.
