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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Oct. 29—PUEBLO OF ISLETA — Isador José Jaramillo was sent to Albuquerque Indian School in 1949, where he stayed for 11 years. Decades after the Pueblo of Isleta member left Albuquerque Indian ...
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.
Miguel H. Trujillo was born on April 30, 1904, at the Pueblo of Isleta, in New Mexico to Juanita (née Jaramillo) and José Trujillo. [2]: 450 [3]: 57 José was a farmer, but died when Trujillo was seven years old, leaving Juanita to raise their four children. Both Trujillo and his older brother, Manuel, known as "Bob", took odd jobs to help ...
The frequency of wildfires has increased. In response, the Isleta Pueblo and consultants have been developing a plan to reduce the risk of fire, prioritize fire fighting to focus on areas dominated by native vegetation, replant cottonwood and willows along the banks, restore riparian grasslands and search for ways to better manage the dam. [15]
Notable works. ‘’Night Sky, Morning Star’’. Notable awards. First Book Award (Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas) Evelina Zuni Lucero (born October 10, 1953 [1]) is a Native American ( Isleta Pueblo / Ohkay Owingeh) novelist, poet and journalist. Her novel Night Sky, Morning Star won the 1999 First Book Award from the Native ...