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Above: Old Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, circa
1880. Nestora Piarote is in the
foreground. The adobe conical dome of
the mission can be seen in the
background (upper left). The old pueblo
was located on the Camino Real (Old
Pueblo Road) next to the Acequia
Madre. Modern-day Alameda Road
ended at the old pueblo. Courtesy of the
Aultman Collection, El Paso Public
Library.
Below: 1897 Cattle Trespass Map was
based upon the 1852 Jose Salazar y
Larrequi International Boundary Map.
Old Ysleta Pueblo is opposite or east of
the Ysleta Mission (U.S. Department
of State, 1903.) Arrows with text by
author.slain. The survivors
sought temporary shelter
at Santa Fe, in the north,
and at Isleta Pueblo in theId Pueblo south.
The Tigua and Piro Indian
pueblos near Isleta
jp4lo Road were unprepared to parnb.,Real]
ticipate in the revolt because
they were far re,~
moved from the
rebellion's planning centers
in the north. Some
Madre 1,500 Spanish refugees
congregated at Isleta,
where they received a
hostile reception. The Tigua Indians were
captured and forced to march to the Pass
of the North, some 250 miles down river.
Near modern-day Socorro, New Mexico,
the Piro Indians had to abandon their
pueblos and join the long walk. Altogether,
317 Tigua and Piro Indians were
placed under guard and dispatched to El
Paso.
In 1681, the Spanish governor
launched an expedition to re-conquer
New Mexico. His forces attacked Isleta
Pueblo, which soon surrendered. The
Spanish troops advanced to the Santa Fe
area, where Indian resistance was so great
that they hastily retreated southward. AtIsleta, the Spanish took 385 Indian captives,
who were transferred to El Paso.
The displaced Indians and Spanish refugees
from New Mexico were relocated to El
Paso, where they camped near Guadalupe
Mission, which was occupied by the local
Manso and Suma Indians. For the next 12
years, the Pass of the North was the most
northern outpost of colonial Spain. The
Tigua Indians lived in temporary camps with
little resources. Because of sickness among
the Indians and conflict with Spaniards, the
governor introduced a policy of ethnic separation
that had been practiced in New
Mexico.
By 1682, the temporary Indian camps had
evolved into three distinct Indian Pueblos,
scattered almost 24 miles down river from
Guadalupe Mission: San Antonio de Senecu
(Piro), Corpus Christi de la Ysleta (Tigua),
and Nuestra Sefora de la Concepci6n de
Socorro (Piro). Ysleta del Sur Pueblo was
called del sur (of the south) to distinguish it
from the mother pueblo in the north. Later,
Ysleta Pueblo would be referred to as San
Antonio de la Ysleta, after the patron of the
mother pueblo in New Mexico. The Tigua
Indians of Ysleta, Texas, have always been
loyal to the tribal patron, San Antonio de
Padua.
The exact location of the first Tigua
pueblo in the El Paso area is unknown. PerHERITAGE * 18 * SUMMER 2000
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