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Tajique New Mexico Church

The village name of Tajique might have been derived from the Tiwa name of their pueblo, Tush-yit-yay, as the village is on the site of that former pueblo. The Spaniards, as usual around here, conquered the pueblo and enslaved the Indigenous People.

 

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Uploaded on November 24, 2022
Taken circa 2012