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Show Eight Northern Pueblos, an organization devoted to the rebirth of Pueblo Indian interest in their own arts, crafts, and history. San Juan Pueblo, then, must be the first stop on a visit to the pueblos that surround Santa Fe, even though the impressive apartment houses of famous 0'1 d Taos may be more tempti ng. At Taos, the pi nk-brown wa 11 s of the terraced apartment villages blend well with the beautiful foot hills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountins. Santa Fe The oldest capital city in America, Santa Fe was founded under orders from the viceroy of New Spain in 1609 by Governor Pedro de-Peralta, ten years before the pilgrim landing at Plymouth Rock. Replacing the San Juan Pueblo capital that Don Juan de Onate founded in 1598, Santa Fe served as the center of Spanish rule for 200 years. As a center for exploration and mission work among the Indians, Santa Fe was the natural starting place for the D-E Expedt t ton.. Later, it was the end of the famous Santa Fe Trail to Missouri, -the trade route between Mexico and the United States .. Famous for its indigenous architectural style, Santa Fe is a successful mix of Pueblo Indian and Spanish style building with later Territorial This is modification after Santa Fe became U.S. property in 1846. characterized by thick adobe walls that surround rectangular houses. The roof is built with logs (or vigas) covered with small poles, brush and tamped earth. Wooden spouts would puncture the parapet to drain the flat roof. Even today, these elements are used in modern buildings of the city, giving it an overall pleasing appearance., While in Santa Fe, visit the Canyon Road Artist Community and the many museums of Indian and fold art and anthropology. Anasazi sites in New Mexico Close to the Pueblos near Santa Fe are the ruins of Bandelier National Monument, a site of an Anasazi culture that eventually moved out in the 13th Century and joined the existing pueblos of the Rio Grande Ri ver. Chaco Canyon, isolated in the San Juan Basin west of Santa Fe, has the best examples of Anasazi stone masonry. Of particular interest is the unusual five-story Pueblo Bonito, a coliseum-like village in the shape of a "0" with a central court. The Aztec Ruins National Monument is an impressive village, near Farmington (south of Mesa Verde, Colorado), that was occupi ed two di fferent times by Anasazi for eight hundred years until an extended drought drove the Indians out at the end of the 13th Century. Other'Points of Interest in Northern New Mexico Navajo Lake State Park and the Jicarilla Apache Reservation provide ample recreation near the border of Colorado. H-7 |
