Home to Taos Pueblo
people more than 1,000 years
By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com
Just back from Taos Pueblo, Place of the Red Willows. Home to Taos Pueblo people for more than 1,000 years, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as a National Historic Landmark. The tribe has its own government, land base, and municipality and have been there, continuously for the most part, for history as we know it.
Mariano Medina, born in Taos, is widely credited with being the local Loveland area's first businessman and permanent resident. That area, mostly in Loveland city limits now, was like a lot of Colorado pre-goldrush ... sparsely populated. Dozens of other things Colorado-related have their history wrapped up in the fabric of Taos. Kit Carson, Fort Garland, Pueblo, other mountain men, and the development of state itself.
"Home to the Taos Pueblo people, also known in the indigenous language, Tiawa, as the Red Willow People. living on and with this land for time immemorial, the community continues to thrive in contemporary times.," says the Taos Pueblo visitor map.
"Starting with Pueblo Plaza, the captivation beauty of the Sangre de Christo mountain range and both adobe structures rising five stories, the North House, Hluamma, and South House, Hlaukwima are still lived in today. St. Jerome Church, built in 1850, and continues to be used by the community today.
The ruins of the St. Jerome Church are the testimony resiliency of the community. Constructed in 1619, abandoned during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and lastly bombed by the U.S. Calvary in 1847, the Red Willow Creek at the center of our village as a life source and a reminder of the fight for the return of our current land base. This space is kept within the adobe wall structure, once a barrier to enemy tribes, now to modernization."
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