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When Docher prayed to the Padre for forgiveness, his arm spontaneously and mysteriously healed. Docher would go on to stay at the church for many more years, becoming known as “The Padre of Isleta,” and was buried next to Padre Padilla when he died in 1928.
- Pueblo of Isleta is located in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. It is adjacent to and east of the main section of Laguna Pueblo. The pueblo was built on a knife-shaped reef of lava running across an ancient Rio Grande channel.
- One of the highlights for tourists visiting the area is the Mission Church of Isleta Pueblo. Built in 1613, it is one of the oldest surviving missions in the United States. Its fame was greatly increased because it was the mission of Fray Juan Jose de Padilla, known affectionately as Padre Padilla.
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Location: | U.S. 85, Isleta, New Mexico |
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Coordinates: | 34°54′31″N106°41′30″W / 34.90861°N 106.69167°WCoordinates: 34°54′31″N106°41′30″W / 34.90861°N 106.69167°W |
Area: | 155 acres (63 ha) |
Built: | 1613 |
Architectural style: | Pueblo Style |
Governing body: | Governor, Tribal Council |
NRHP Reference#: | 75001162[1] |
Added to NRHP: | September 5, 1975 |
Francisca Chiwiwi, Isleta Pueblo, circa 1925? Photo by Edward Curtis
Isleta Pueblo is an unincorporatedTanoanpueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established around the 14th century.
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Overview
The population of Isleta Pueblo consists of mostly the Southern Tiwa ethnic group (Spanish: Tigua[2]) who speak Isletan Tiwa, a variety of the Southern Tiwa language (of the Tanoan family). The other variety of Southern Tiwa is spoken at Sandia Pueblo.
Isleta Pueblo is located in the Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. It is east of and adjacent to the main section of Laguna Pueblo (a Keresan group).
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Macpilot 11 0 9. Culturally, Pueblo groups have been divided into two group classes, a Western Pueblo group and an Eastern Pueblo group.[3] Isleta Pueblo in this view is an Eastern Pueblo.
Isleta Pueblo's casino is served by the New Mexico Rail Runner Express, a commuter line from Belen to Santa Fe, at Isleta Pueblo station.
Social organization
Isleta (as well as Sandia) have matrilineal non-exogamous corn groups which are connected with directions and colors, a moiety system (one moiety connected with the winter, the other with the summer), a kiva system. The people have their own dialect of language called Isletan.
Kachina cults are also found in Isleta, but this being more characteristic of Western Pueblos may have been introduced by Laguna people in more recent times.
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In an interesting article published in The Santa Fé Magazine on June,1913, Rev. Anton Docher describes the early 20th century's life in the Pueblo,[4] and notably the administration of the Pueblo fully recognized by the United States Government: 'A Cacique appointed for life, has the supreme power over his subjects'. A governor is elected yearly by the people with two assistants, and occasionally a grand council meets. The governor is the judge in civil cases only (crimes are turned over to the district courts). A war captain and other officials have charge of the various celebrations and dances, such as the 'dance of the kings' in January, the 'tortoise dance' in February..
History
The name Isleta is Spanish for 'little island'. The native name of the pueblo is 'Shiewhibak' meaning 'a knife laid on the ground to play whib (a native footrace)'.[5] The Spanish Mission of San Agustín de la Isleta was built in the pueblo around 1629 or 1630 by the Spanish Franciscan friar Juan de Salas.[6][7]
During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, many of the pueblo people fled to Hopi settlements in Arizona, while others followed the Spanish retreat south to El Paso del Norte (present-day El Paso, Texas. After the rebellion, the Isleta people returned to the Pueblo, many with Hopi spouses. Later in the 1800s, friction with members of Laguna Pueblo and Acoma Pueblo, who had joined the Isleta community, led to the establishment of the satellite settlement of Oraibi. Today, as well as the main pueblo, Isleta includes the small communities of Oraibi and Chicale.
On October 21, 1887,the Father Anton Docher went in New Mexico where he was ordered as a priest in the Cathedral of Santa Fé.[8] After three years in Santa Fé and one year spent in Taos, he arrived in Isleta December 28, 1891.There , he met his long term friends Adolph Bandelier[9] and Charles Fletcher Lummis.[10]At this time Pablo Abeita (no relation to Diego or Louise Abeita) was governor of Isleta. Anton Docher served for 34 years in the historic St. Agustin Mission Church (one of the oldest in the country, built in 1612),until 1928 when he died. He is buried with the Padre Padilla near the altar of the church in Isleta.
On October 26, 1919, the King of Belgium Albert I together with the Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria and Prince Léopold,during their official visit to the United States of America, journeyed to Isleta , the King decorated of the Order of LéopoldPablo Abeita and father Anton Docher[11], which offers him a turquoise cross mounted in silver made by the Isletans.[12] 10 000 persons journeyed to Isleta for the occasion.
The King and the Queen during their visit in Isleta pueblo New Mexico 1919 with State Governor and Anton Docher
Today, the pueblo operates the Isleta Eagle Golf Course and Isleta Lakes Recreational Complex.
Cultural references
Itubedownloader 6 3 4. Isleta is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1. The houses are described as white inside and outside.
Isleta during the early 1900 is also abundantly described in the biography of Anton Docher: 'The Padre of Isleta The Story of Father Anton Docher' by Julia M. Keleher and Elsie Ruth Chant (1940–2009).
Notes
- ^'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^Note that Spanish Tigua only referred to the Southern Tiwa and not the larger Tiwa grouping including the Northern Tiwa ethnic groups Taos and Picuris.
- ^Another view groups the pueblos in three cultural groups: Western, Eastern, and Keresan (or Central).
- ^Anton Docher. The Quaint Indian Pueblo of Isleta.The Santa Fé Magazine,1913,vol.7,n°7,p.29-32.
- ^Frances Densmore. Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuñi Pueblos.Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1957, p.1.
- ^Montaño, Mary Caroline (2001). Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts and Culture of New Mexico. UNM Press. p. 91. ISBN978-0-8263-2137-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=atVLm51yPrgC&pg=PA91. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (1890). Final report of investigations among the Indians of the southwestern United States: carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885 ... Printed by J. Wilson and son. p. 233. http://books.google.com/books?id=4BYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA233. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^Anton Docher. The Quaint Indian Pueblo of Isleta.The Santa Fé Magazine,1913,vol.7,n°7,p.29.
- ^Keleher and Chant. The Padre of Isleta. Sunstone Press, 2009, p. 41.
- ^Keleher and Chant. The Padre of Isleta. Sunstone Press, 2009, p.88 .
- ^Keleher and Chant. The Padre of Isleta. Sunstone Press, 2009, p. 94.
- ^W.A.Keleher.The Indian sentinel.1920,vol.2. p.23-24
External links
- 'Isleta Pueblo'. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Isleta_Pueblo.
- Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century[1]
- Julia M. Keleher and Elsie Ruth Chant, The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher, Sunstone press Publishing, 2009. [ for more information ]
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Father Juan de Padilla (1500–1542), born in Andalusia, was a Spanish Roman Catholicmissionary who spent much of his life exploring North America with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado.[1]
Born | c. 1490 Toledo, Spain |
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Died | 1542 |
Nationality | Spanish |
Padilla and three other Franciscans, together with more than 300 Spanish soldiers and workers, accompanied Coronado on his quest for the Seven Cities of Gold, a mythical land of great wealth. When Coronado abandoned his search, Padilla and others followed him to explore what is now the Southwestern United States; Padilla was one of the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon. But, when Coronado was told by a native named the 'Turk' that a great land called Quivira was in modern-day Kansas, Coronado's entire party immediately left in search of it.
After reaching the location in 1541, the Spaniards camped alongside a Wichita village for 25 days. Finding no gold, they killed the Turk in fury. Coronado returned to the Southwest and Padilla followed. One year later, the missionary priest returned to Kansas to preach to the Wichita, and establish the first Christianmission in the present-day United States. He was killed in Kansas in 1542 by Native Americans, and is considered to be one of the first Christian martyrs in the U.S.[2]
Ghost phenomenon and legend[edit]
Juan de Padilla is associated with a miracle known as the 'Rising of the coffin of Padre Padilla'.[3] The story of seeing his coffin rise above the ground was repeated for many years, and was believed by many people in Isleta, where the Padre is believed to be buried. This is not the same Juan de Padilla as the proto-martyr of the United States.
Incorrupt by the Catholic Church[edit]
The first time when the coffin rose, the body was as fresh when he was buried. However, since there are no witnesses to prove this, and he has a missing foot now, it has since becoming New Mexico folklore.
Anton Docher, once a priest in Isleta, investigated the miracle in the presence of several witnesses. He opened the grave of Padre Padilla. During this operation, Docher injured his arm and suffered from the then highly deadly gangrene.[4] Doctors recommended amputation for his survival. The natives inhabitants evoked the intercession of Padre Padilla. Docher made a prayer to Padre Padilla to cure and forgive him for what he did, and supposedly, the wound had disappeared.[5]cf
Memorial[edit]
Cross in honor of Juan de Padilla, near Lyons, Kansas.
In 1950, the Knights of Columbus erected a commemorative cross dedicated to Padilla near Lyons, Kansas.
The stone marker reads: Airy 3 2 175 – video downloader.
This Cross is erected to the memory of Father Padilla, Franciscan Missionary, who stood with Coronado at the erection of the first Christian Cross on these prairies. Father Padilla devoted his life to the service of the Cross and to the Indians of Quivira and suffered a martyr's death in that service in the year of our Lord 1542.
The symbol on the Cross is inscribed, Jesus Christ, Victor, and expresses the victory of faith and sacrifice. The square, quartered by the Cross, denotes the four corners of the World brought into Christian unity when Father Padilla carried the Cross of Christianity to the center of the New World.
This monument is a gift to the people of Kansas by the Knights of Columbus of this State. Erected 1950.
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In popular culture[edit]
On the 1976 Leftoverture album by the American rock group Kansas, the first movement of Magnum Opus is entitled 'Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat.'
Notes[edit]
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- ^'Juan de Padilla'. Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^Engelhardt, p. 14: '..[in] 1542, three Friars Minor were martyred in New Mexico as victims of their zeal for the Christian Faith. They were Fr. Juan de Padilla, Fr. Juan de la Cruz, and Brother Luis de Ubeda or Escalona.
- ^Samuel Gance. Anton ou la trajectoire d'un père. L'Harmattan, 2013, p.179-186.
- ^Ray John de Aragón. Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico, 2012, p.81
- ^Alice Bullock. Living legends of the Santa Fe country, 1985, pp.85-86
References[edit]
- Engelhardt, Zephyrin, O.F.M. (1908). The Missions and Missionaries of Kansas, Alaska, Volume One. The James H. Barry Co., San Francisco, CA.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Alice Bullock (1985). Living legends of the Santa Fe country. Sunstone Press.
- Keleher, Julia M.; Chant, Elsie Ruth (2009). The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher. Sunstone press Publishing. ISBN978-0-86534-714-4.
- De Aragon, Ray John (2012). Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico. The History Press. ISBN978-0-86534-506-5.
- Samuel Gance, Anton ou la trajectoire d'un père, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2013, 208 p. ISBN978-2-336-29016-4
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