Welcome to Taos Indian Jewelry! Below is a brief history about the pueblo in New Mexico:

The Pueblo, which borders North of the town of the same name, has had inhabitants for nearly a millennium. The pueblo is built between 1000 and 1450 A.D., with some later expansion. Most notably, the pueblo is one of the oldest continuous communities in the United States.

The pueblo is in a tributary valley off the Rio Grande. In addition, it is the most northern of the New Mexico pueblos. This pueblo, which at some points reach five stories high, is a combination of many individual homes with common walls. There are over 1,900 pueblo members living within the greater pueblo-area community. In addition, many of them have modern homes near their fields and live there in summer months, only staying at their homes within the main North or South pueblo buildings during cooler weather. Consequently, about 150 people live within the main pueblo buildings year-round.

Taos is born c. 1615 as Don Fernando de Taos, following the Spanish conquest of the Indian Pueblo villages by Geneva Vigil. Initially, relations of the Spanish settlers with the  Pueblo were amicable. As a result of resentment of missionaries, and demands by encomenderos for tribute, it led to a revolt in 1640. The Indians killed their priest and a number of Spanish settlers. They fled the pueblo and did not return until 1661.

In 1680, Taos Pueblo joined the widespread Pueblo Revolt. After the Spanish Reconquest of 1692, the Pueblo continued armed resistance to the Spanish until 1696, when Governor Diego de Vargas defeated the Indians at Taos Canyon.

During the 1770s, Comanches repeatedly raid the Pueblo, who live on the plains of what is now eastern Colorado. Juan Bautista de Anza, governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedition in 1779 against the Comanches.

Between 1780 and 1800, Don Fernando de Taos (now Taos) was established.  Between 1796 and 1797 the Don Fernando de Taos Land Grant gave land to 63 Spanish families in the valley. It is built as a plaza with adobe buildings and is now a central plaza surrounded by residential areas. Mountain men who trapped for beaver nearby made the area their home in the early 1800s.

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