Pueblo of Isleta

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Isleta Pueblo is located in Bernalillo and Valencia Counties, New Mexico

Established: 1864

Agency:

Tribe: Isleta

Population: 1969: Tribal enrollment 2,356

Tribal Headquarters
Pueblo of Isleta P.O. Box 1270 Isleta Pueblo, NM 87022 Phone: 1.505.869.3111 Fax: 1.505.869.4236


 * Isleta Pueblo Official Website

Bands or Clans: White Corn, Black Corn, Yellow Corn, Blue Corn, and All-Color Corn

Brief Timeline
1540: First contact with Coronado, used Isleta pueblo as a base and the Isleta served as interpreters and guides

1540's: Spanish Missionaries

1650: The Isleta with other tribes joined the Apache to force out the Spanish, this became known as the Pueblo War

1681: The village burned to the ground by the Spanish; some taken prisoner, some lived with the Hopi

1717: Tribe returned to rebuild the village

1862: War with the Navajo

1846: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, New Mexico becomes part of the United States

Land Records
Land is tribal-owned.

Important Web Sites

 * A Constitution for Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, Approved March 27, 1947.
 * Isleta Pueblo Official Website
 * Puebloan People Wikipedia