The Tiwa * Pueblo Indians are believed to have migrated from the Wetherill Mesa County of southern Colorado. Archaeologists date their initial occupation of the area at approximately A.D. 200. Nearly three centuries ago. a ragged * and weary band of refugees straggled into El Paso from the North. fleeing the horror of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 which wrested the entire area of New Mexico from the Spanish. With this band was a .handful of Tiwa Indians from the Isleta Pueblo of central New Mexico. * The Tiwas were the first permanent inhabitants of the State of Texas--they founded the first permanent settlement in Texas at Ysleta in 1682. where they still reside today. Throughout their history they have been the allies of their benefactors.
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