Santa Ana (people)
The Santa Ana Pueblo or Tamaya Pueblo (also Tamaiya Pueblo , call themselves Tamayame - 'People of Tamaya', the traditional name of the pueblo ) belong to the Pueblo peoples and speak Eastern Keres , which is now considered an Isolated Language . The name is derived from the Spanish name for Saint Anne , as the Spanish named their missions after saints of the Catholic Church . Many missions in turn were set up as the nucleus of new pueblo communities or next to existing pueblos for proselytizing the Indians.
The pueblo is located in the southwest of the USA on the Rio Grande in New Mexico , between the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque . The lack of arable land and water for irrigation has led to the practical abandonment of the Pueblo Santa Ana. Most of the tribe members now live in Ranchos de Santa Ana , a farming community on the Rio Grande near Bernalillo , north of Albuquerque. Only a few people stayed behind to guard the pueblo.
history
In 1598 Juan de Oñate went to Pueblo Tamaja , which he renamed Santa Ana , and a mission was built there in the 17th century. During the Pueblo Uprising in 1680, Santa Ana, San Felipe and Santo Domingo joined forces to drive the Spanish settlers out of their land.
Pedro de Posada , the governor of El Paso , attacked Santa Ana in 1687 and burned the village. The refugees united with the survivors of Zia and built a pueblo on the Red Mesa near Jemez as protection against the Spaniards.
Culture
The current church of Santa Ana dates from 1734 and could contain parts of the old mission. In Santa Ana there are active celebrations where the population returns to their pueblo for ceremonial dances. The pueblo is closed to visitors at all other times.
As a result of the reintroduction of pottery in the 1940s, pottery is once again available in limited quantities. Crosses made of wood with inlaid straw (a folk art adopted from the Spanish) and small, painted wood-carved animals are also made. The US census in 2000 resulted in 589, 400 of them permanent residents, in the approximately 77 km² large reservation .
literature
- William C. Sturtevant (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians , Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC
- Alfonso Ortiz (Ed.): Southwest Vol. 9, 1979 ISBN 0-16004-577-0
- Alfonso Ortiz (Ed.): Southwest Vol. 10, 1983 ISBN 0-16004-579-7
- Tom Bathi: Southwestern Indian Tribes , KC Publications, Las Vegas 1995
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ in Spanish pueblo denotes both the village and the village community, hence the name Santa Ana Pueblo - 'Santa Ana people' or 'people of the Pueblo Santa Ana'
- ^ Official website of the Santa Ana Pueblo
- ^ Indian Pueblo Cultural Center - Santa Ana Pueblo
- ↑ Tom Bathi: Southwestern Indian Tribes. Page 19. KC Publications, Las Vegas, 1997 ISBN 0-916122-01-8