Vecinos: The Symbiotic Relationship between Picuris Pueblo and Its Indio-Hispano Neighbors

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation seeks to capture the rewards of a neighboring progression that moves away from past conflicts toward reconciliation forming a new history between the Pueblo and Indio-Hispano people. Inter-communal exchanges between the Spanish and Pueblos helped them to endure droughts, famines, diseases, and the eventual encroachment of a new social system foreign to both of their cultures. The commemoration of feast days in the pueblos and in the villages brought them together in times of plenty and in celebration of the planting and harvesting seasons and other festive occasions throughout the year. Occasions like these forged enduring relationships amongst individuals and families alike. There are stories that recount the knowledge and wisdom of shared methodologies of agriculture, architecture, food preparation and preservation, religious traditions, rituals, acequia systems, and water harvesting. What has endured through the ages are stories that capture a holistic and balanced life within their shared querencias, stories of blessings and offerings, of birthing and of dying, of giving and receiving.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38613.0