Tano Pueblos
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Tano Pueblos |
| Ethnie: | TANO PUEBLOS |
| Languages: | Tewa |
| Family: | Tewa |
| Stock: | Tiwa-Tewa |
| Phylum: | Kiowa Tanoan |
| Macro-Culture: | Southwestern |
| The Tano were a sedentary agricultural culture of the greater Pueblo culture. They occupied territories south from Santa Fe to Golden and west to the Rio Grande. |
| They were early victims of the Spanish conquest, and preyed upon by the Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, and Utes. They finally abandoned their villages and joined the Keresen at Santo Domingo. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| NM 27 villages |
| Present Locations |
| Santo Domingo Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo |
| Year | History |
| 1528 | Known to Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
| 1540 | Coronado conquest |
| 1583 | Visited by Espejo |
| 1590 | Gaspar Castaño de Sosa conquered Pecos, went westward to Keresan but was arrested at Santo Domingo by New Spain troop and disgraced |
| 1598 | Juan de Oñate arrived, forced Pueblo vassalage to Spain, colonized; Acoma joined Tiwa and Tompiro in rebellion, villages destroyed, 500 enslaved, later escaped |
| 1607 | Oñate removed from governorship |
| 1609 | Gov. Pedro de Peralta arrived, founded Santa Fe, built palace with Pueblo labor, disregarded Indian protection laws |
| 1628 | Many churches built, friars added, native religion banned |
| 1640 | Severe drought for several years, thousands of Pueblos died |
| 1663 | Severe drought and famine for six years |
| 1680 | Pueblo Rebellion led by San Juan Tewa Popé, 400 Spaniards died in siege of Santa Fe, 50 fled to El Paso |
| 1691 | Cochiti burned in failed reconquest try |
| 1693 | Successful reconquest |
| 1720 | Trading fairs began with nomadic tribes |
| 1777 | Gov. Juan Bautista de Anza led peace pact between Pueblos and nomads except Apache |
| 1793 | Galisto Pueblo abandoned, tribe joined Keresan at Pueblo Domingo |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1630 | 4,000 | Fray Alonzo de Benavides |
| 1680 | 800 | Fray Augustín de Vetancurt |
| 1700 | 200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1706 | 150 | Fray Juan Alvarez |
| 1752 | 135 | New Mexico census |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB projection |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| None |
| Tano Pueblo links: |
| Kiowa-Tanoan Linguistic Family http://www.native-languages.org/famkio.htm |
| Pueblo Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/pueblo_culture.htm |
| Santo Domingo Art Items http://www.adobegallery.com/origin.php?origin_id=5&cat_id=all |
| Santo Domingo History http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss78sc/nmu1%23mss78sc_m4.html |
| Santo Domingo Pueblo http://www.toh-atin.com/Pages/Jewelry/santodomingo.html |
| Santo Domingo Pueblo http://www.visitsantafe.com/businesspage.cfm?businessid=1664 |
| Secrets of San Marcos Pueblo http://www.unm.edu/~quantum/quantum_fall_1999/san_marcos.htm |
| Tano Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/pueblo/tanoindianhist.htm |
| Tewa Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TEW |
| Tewa Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1711 |
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