Pictures and Stories About Bicycle Side Adventures
We Visited the Barely Visible Remains of Two Old Pueblos:
The Old Kuaua Pueblo Site (just North of Albuquerque), and
The Old Giusewa Pueblo (on the Jemez Reservation, West of Santa Fe),
New Mexico; February, 2019
Above: The Archeologists, in the 1930s conducted a wise 'Dig', they back filled the ruins to preserve them.
Kuaua Pueblo Museum
Above Left: Evidence of trade with indigenous Latin American People.
Above Right: Evidence of trade with indigenous Latin American People.
Above: Tools for kids and pictures.
Above: A map of current day Pueblos and Nations.
Above Left: Stockyard.
Above Right: Rio Grande.
Preserved Painted Kiva Story Art
Kuaua Pueblo Site Walk-About
Coronado Visited the Kuaua Pueblo
Above: The map's north orientation is in the top-left corner (another view follows).
Above: The expedition went through the current country of Mexico and the current USA States of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
Above: Discovered and Private Pieces of the Coronado Expedition have slowly made there way to the museum.
Along the Way Through the Jemez Pueblo Reservation
The Old Giusewa Pueblo Site
Above: Essentially, this is all that remains of the original old Giusewa Pueblo and that was a little disappointing. There is some additional Pueblo like construction brought on by missionaries, but the native peoples ended all of that in 1623, in a revolt, by burning down the Church and all of the symbolism that entails (to reject Spanish domination). There was a second revolt in 1644 for the same reasons.
Above: We were allowed to visit this Kiva but we were not allowed to take pictures because it is a Jemez Spiritual Place. The symbolism was not lost on us. Note that there wasn’t any painting on the walls.
Above: This is a diagram of the Kiva. The construction used the same methods that evolved in the 1600s from the Spanish.
