New Mexico

Ruins: Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, El Morro National Monument, Gila Cliff Dwelling National Monument, Petroglyph National Monument, Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, Village of the Great Kivas
Missions: Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Zia, Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula de los Pecos, Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai, San Agustín de la Isleta Mission, San Buenaventura de Cochiti, San Esteban del Rey de Acoma, San Felipe Mission, San Gregorio de Abó Mission, San Ildefonso Mission, San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira) and San Isidro, San José (Giusewa) de Jémez Mission, San José de Laguna, San Lorenzo de Picurís, San Miguel Mission Chapel, Santa Ana Pueblo Mission, Santo Domingo Mission, Santuario de Chimayó, Santuario de Guadalupe

San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)

Franciscans began converting Abó residents in 1622, and by the late 1620s, the first church was finished. Later, a second church was built with a sophisticated buttressing technique unusual in 17th-century New Mexico. It had an organ and trained choir. In the end, however, cultural conflict and natural disaster devastated the Salinas pueblos. The Apaches, formerly trading partners, now raided the pueblos for food and in retribution for Spanish slave raids in which Pueblo Indians had participated. The Pueblos might have survived the raids, but they—and the Apaches and Spaniards—were hit during the 1660s and '70s with drought and wide-spread famine that killed 450 people at Gran Quivira alone. The Salinas pueblos and missions were abandoned during the 1670s, and the surviving Indians went to live with cultural relatives in other pueblos .

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
P.O. Box 517
Mountainair, NM 87036-0517
(505) 847-2585
www.nps.gov/sapu

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