. Bulletin. Ethnology. BOLL. 30] ISLETA 623 received accessions from the Tigua pue- blos of Quarai, Tajique, and others, e. of the Rio Grande, when those pueblos were abandoned in consequence of Apache depredations. In 1680 the population of Isleta was about 2,000. As the Spanish settlers along the lower Rio Grande took refuge in this pueblo when the uprising occurred in the year named, and thus in-. ISLETA WOMAN. (vroman, Photo. ) terrupted communication between its in- habitants and the seat of war at the northern villages, they did not participate in the massacre of the colonists and missio
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BOLL. 30] ISLETA 623 received accessions from the Tigua pue- blos of Quarai, Tajique, and others, e. of the Rio Grande, when those pueblos were abandoned in consequence of Apache depredations. In 1680 the population of Isleta was about 2,000. As the Spanish settlers along the lower Rio Grande took refuge in this pueblo when the uprising occurred in the year named, and thus in-. ISLETA WOMAN. (vroman, Photo. ) terrupted communication between its in- habitants and the seat of war at the northern villages, they did not participate in the massacre of the colonists and missionaries in the vicinity. When G( iv. Otermin retreated from Santa Fe, how- ever, he found Isleta abandoned, the in- habitants having joined the rebels. The year following (1681) Otermin surprised and captured the pueblo, and on his re- turn from the n. took with him 519 cap- tives, of whom 115 afterward escaped. The remainder were settled on the n. e. bank of the Rio Grande, a few miles be- low El Paso, Tex., the name Isleta del Sur (' Isleta of the South') being applied to their pueblo. The date of the refound- ing of the northern Isleta is somewhat in doubt. According to Bancroft the present pueblo was built in 1709 by some scattered families of Tigua gathered by missionary Juan de la Pefia, while Bando- lier asserts that the pueblo "remained vacant and in ruins until 1718, when it was repeopled with Tiguas who had re- turned from the IMoquis [HopiJ, to whom the majority of the tribe had tied during. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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