Acoma Pueblo

Acoma is one of the 19 Indian Pueblos in New Mexico. The pueblo Indians are descendants of the ancestral pueblo cultures who built all the cliff dwellings, great cities like Chaco etc. After being enslaved by the Spanish, they suffered again under the Americans - to this day. Poverty, infertile land, no jobs on the reservations… they fight to retain their culture and language.
Acoma offers tours to their spiritual center, Sky City built on a mesa. No water, sewage or electricity… very few people live there today but many families have a house that is maintained for feast days and spiritual reasons. Buildings date from 1600 to todayRead more