The Arrival of the Spanish Europeans first “discovered” Zuni territory in 1539 when Friar Marcos De Niza and a black Moorish former-slave named Estevanico led a party from Mexico in search of the fabled “Seven Cities of Cibola.” The Spanish hoped that the stories they had heard about the “wealth” of this region meant “gold”...Read More
Hawikku, Kechiba:wa, Kwa’kin’a, Halona:wa, Mats’a:kya, Kyaki:ma, Village of the Great Kivas, Hanlibinkya, Yellow House Ruins, Heshotultha, Atsinna, Heshota Yalta and more… These sites – and perhaps hundreds more like them over the past thousand years or so – were once thriving, populous pueblos spread over a large area of what is now northwest New Mexico....Read More
