Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pueblo of Isleta is located in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. It is adjacent to and east of the main section of Laguna Pueblo. The pueblo was built on a knife-shaped lava flow running across an ancient Rio Grande channel. [6] The Isleta Pueblo Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Pages in category "Pueblo of Isleta people". The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The San Agustin de la Isleta Mission was founded on the older pueblo, on the west bank of the Rio Grande about 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. The original Isleta (i.e. islet) was so named by the Spaniards from its position on a tongue of land projecting into the stream; the native name, Shiewhibak, seems to refer to a knife used in ...
Area code. 505. FIPS code. 35-34760. GNIS feature ID. 1852627 [2] Isleta Village Proper or Isleta[2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 491 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico. Pages in category "People from Pueblo of Isleta" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Pueblo of Isleta people (5 P) Pages in category "Pueblo of Isleta" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
July 21, 2014 (aged 87) [ 1] Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Occupations. Author. poet. educator. Known for. Author of I Am a Pueblo Indian Girl. Louise Abeita Chewiwi ( E-Yeh-Shure or Blue Corn; [ 2] September 9, 1926 – July 21, 2014) was a Puebloan writer, poet and educator who was an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo.
Biography. Born into a native family of Isleta Pueblo, Abeita grew up speaking Tiwa and English. He was educated in the Jesuit School at Old Albuquerque, then at St Michael's College in Santa Fe. After ten years of formal education, he worked first as a typesetter at the Albuquerque newspaper. He next worked at a family business in Isleta.