Isleta
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Pueblo of Isleta
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Ruins at Pueblo of Isleta
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| Location | U.S. 85, Isleta, New Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 34°54′31″N 106°41′30″W / 34.90861°N 106.69167°WCoordinates: 34°54′31″N 106°41′30″W / 34.90861°N 106.69167°W |
| Area | 155 acres (63 ha) |
| Built | 1613 |
| Architectural style | Pueblo Style |
| NRHP Reference # | 75001162 |
| NMSRCP # | 247 |
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| Added to NRHP | September 5, 1975 |
| Designated NMSRCP | May 5, 1972 |
Pueblo of Isleta (or Isleta Pueblo; Tiwa: Shiewhibak) is an unincorporated community Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established around the 14th century. Its people are federally recognized as a Native American tribe.
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 reef of lava running across an ancient Rio Grande channel. The Isleta Pueblo Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
On January 15, 2016, the tribe's officials and federal government representatives held a ceremony to mark the government's taking into federal trust some 90,151 acres of land, 140 square miles, which the Pueblo had purchased. It enlarged their communal territory by 50%. The tribe had worked for more than 20 years to acquire this land, once part of their homeland. It is so far the largest such acquisition handled under the President Barack Obama administration.
The population of Pueblo of Isleta consists of mostly the Southern Tiwa ethnic group (Spanish: Tigua.). They speak Isletan Tiwa, one of the two varieties or dialects of the Southern Tiwa language, part of the Tanoan language family. The other variety is spoken at Sandia Pueblo.
In August 2015, the tribe announced that the Tiwa language would be taught to children at Isleta Elementary School, following the school's transfer from federal to tribal control. In 2016 the Kellogg Foundation made grants totaling $148,000 for development of the dual language, Tiwa-English program, for young children at the school.
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