Galisteo Pueblo

The panel follows the survivors to Santo Domingo; another Tano line runs much farther west. After the Spanish returned in the 1690s, many Galisteo Basin people took refuge among the northern Tewa, and in 1696, after a second rising, a group fled to the Hopi country. Invited by Walpi to guard the trail onto First Mesa, they built Hano, also called Tewa Village, where their descendants still speak Tewa. The basin's old towns, Galisteo Pueblo among them, are now twenty-four sites protected under a federal act of 2004.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Galisteo Pueblo Spanish explorers found several Tano-speaking pueblos in the Galisteo Basin in 1540. They were among the leaders of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. 150 Tano families were eventually reset- tled in Galisteo Pueblo in 1706. Droughts, famine, Comanche raids, and disease led to its aban- donment by 1788, with most of the survivors moving to Santo Domingo.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pecos National Historical Park — 18 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.
• Palace of the Governors — 20 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.

More markers nearby

• Southern Rockies / Galisteo Basin — 5.7 mi
• Cerrillos — 10 mi
• Route 66 — 12 mi
• Hispano New Mexicans in the US Civil War — 12 mi