Adobe House
by Robert Harris
Title
Adobe House
Artist
Robert Harris
Medium
Photograph
Description
This adobe house, in the Coronado Historic Site. One of the many restored ruins of Kuaua Pueblo located north of Albuquerque, New Mexico in Bernalillo. In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado with 500 soldiers and 2,000 Indigenous allies from New Spain entered the Rio Grande valley somewhere near this site. Coronado was searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
Instead of treasure, he found a dozen villages inhabited by prosperous native farmers. These newly "discovered" people spoke Tiwa, and their ancestors had already been living in this area for thousands of years. Coronado called them: Los Indios de los Pueblos or Pueblo Indians. He and his men visited all twelveTiwa villages during the course of the next two years because they survived on food and other supplies that they obtained from them. Without the assistance of the Tiwas (willing or unwilling), Coronado and his men very likely would have starved to death.
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November 25th, 2023
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