Pueblo of Isleta

The pueblo's own name is Shiewhibak in Southern Tiwa; Isleta is the Spanish one the panel glosses. The panel's Isletans who went south in 1680 were only part of the story: many others fled west to the Hopi towns and came home after the revolt, some with Hopi spouses, and a community at Isleta is still called Oraibi. Governor Pablo Abeita later helped organize the Pueblo leaders who pressed for the Pueblo Lands Act of 1924, affirming their title, and when Belgium's king came to Isleta and decorated Abeita, some ten thousand people turned out for the visit.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Pueblo of Isleta Isleta, or "little island" in Spanish, is the largest of the Rió Grande pueblos. Many Isletans moved to El Paso with the Spanish during the 1680 Revolt; others resettled the pueblo around 1710. Parts of the mission, San Agustín de la Isleta, date from about 1613.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroglyph National Monument — 16 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument — 32 mi
  Three Spanish mission churches raised over Tiwa and Tompiro pueblos east of the Manzano Mountains in the 1600s, each of its own stone, and one never finished.

More markers nearby

• Pueblo of Isleta Tuei — 1.0 mi
• Vásquez de Coronado's Route — 2.9 mi
• Los Padillas — 3.8 mi
• Peralta — 4.6 mi