tigua+history

=Tigua histoy=

The Tigua tribe came from the area that is now Northern New Mexico. From what historians know their tribe was always settled there. The Tigua called their ancestrial home Gran Quivera. It is now part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions national monument. The Spanish explorers who came to the place called it "Pueblos de los humanos" which means "City of Humans". In the 1600's, a bad drought caused a food shortage that lasted several years. This, along with the European diseases, caused their population to dwindle until the Indians had to leave their home and move southward to the Rio Grande near El Paso to farm or move north to stay with their close relatives, the Tiwa. The ones that went south converted to Christianity (after a series of revolts) and named the place "Ysleta del Sur" which means "little island to the south". Ysleta contains the oldest mission/church in Texas, the Isleta. ACTUAL PICTURES MY MOM TOOK AT GRAN QUIVERA ON MY FAMILIE'S VACATION IN 2004: KIVA



=Biblograpy= (for both of mine) [] __Frommers: New Mexico__ by Lesley S. King copyright 2005