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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. [5] The Isleta Pueblo Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Published 1959–1967. Founded in 1959, after its predecessor, the Apache Newsletter, from earlier in the 1950s. Back issues can be accessed via the Library of Congress. [13] [14] A:shiwi A:wan Messenger and Ashiwi News (published by Zuni Pueblo) a newsletter of the Zuni people [15] Au-Authm Action News (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian ...
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. (Reuters) - As Detective Kathleen Lucero drives along a dirt road towards the Manzano mountains east of her New Mexico Native American village, she recalls the time earlier in ...
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 Writers' Circle of the Americas .
Her résumé includes recently serving as a commissioner for the Tesuque Pueblo Gaming Commission and legal work for Isleta Pueblo and a Native law firm in Albuquerque. "I am stepping into this ...
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 ...
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]
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 .