Mound 7 Pueblo (1500s), Gran Quivira, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, NM (2)
**Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000494, date listed 10/15/1966
1 mi. E of Gran Quivira on NM 10
Gran Quivira, NM (Socorro County)
Gran Quivera (also know as Las Humanas) largest of the Salinas pueblos, was an important trade center for many years before and after the Spanish entrada. The people resisted the newcomers at first, but they reconciled themselves to the Spanish presence and borrowed freely from them, as they had from other cultures.
Documents from the 1600s tell of strife between missionaries and the encomenderos, who complained that the friars kept the Indians so busy studying Christianity and building churches that the encomenderos could neither use Indian labor nor collect their tributes. In the 1660s friars burned and filled kivas in an effort to exterminate the old religion. Hurriedly altered above-ground rooms converted to kivas attest to the Pueblo priests' response. A second church was begun around 1659, but was never completed, partly because Apache raids had begun. In 1672, further weakened by drought and famini, the inhabitants (only 500 by that time) abandoned the pueblo. (from NPS Brochure)
Mound 7 is the largest of the pueblo mounds at Gran Quivira. Following the abandonment of the earlier circular pueblo around 1400, the first rectangular rooms of Mound 7 were built between 1400 and 1515. Following a thirty year abandonment, the rooms of Mound 7 began to expand further. By the beginning of the Spanish period with the arrival of Don Antonio de Espejo in 1583, the Mound 7 pueblo had over 200 rooms. Fray Francisco Letrado was able to negotiate the use of eight of these rooms in 1629, and built an additional eight rooms the following year. (1)
References (1) Salinas Pueblo Missions NPS www.nps.gov/sapu/learn/historyculture/mound-7.htm
Mound 7 Pueblo (1500s), Gran Quivira, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, NM (2)
**Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000494, date listed 10/15/1966
1 mi. E of Gran Quivira on NM 10
Gran Quivira, NM (Socorro County)
Gran Quivera (also know as Las Humanas) largest of the Salinas pueblos, was an important trade center for many years before and after the Spanish entrada. The people resisted the newcomers at first, but they reconciled themselves to the Spanish presence and borrowed freely from them, as they had from other cultures.
Documents from the 1600s tell of strife between missionaries and the encomenderos, who complained that the friars kept the Indians so busy studying Christianity and building churches that the encomenderos could neither use Indian labor nor collect their tributes. In the 1660s friars burned and filled kivas in an effort to exterminate the old religion. Hurriedly altered above-ground rooms converted to kivas attest to the Pueblo priests' response. A second church was begun around 1659, but was never completed, partly because Apache raids had begun. In 1672, further weakened by drought and famini, the inhabitants (only 500 by that time) abandoned the pueblo. (from NPS Brochure)
Mound 7 is the largest of the pueblo mounds at Gran Quivira. Following the abandonment of the earlier circular pueblo around 1400, the first rectangular rooms of Mound 7 were built between 1400 and 1515. Following a thirty year abandonment, the rooms of Mound 7 began to expand further. By the beginning of the Spanish period with the arrival of Don Antonio de Espejo in 1583, the Mound 7 pueblo had over 200 rooms. Fray Francisco Letrado was able to negotiate the use of eight of these rooms in 1629, and built an additional eight rooms the following year. (1)
References (1) Salinas Pueblo Missions NPS www.nps.gov/sapu/learn/historyculture/mound-7.htm