Shiewhibak

Shiewhibak, called Isleta by the Spaniards, was a Southern Tiwa pueblo on a knife-shaped lava flow beside the middle Rio Grande. It was founded around the fourteenth century, south of Albuquerque.

Coronado campaigned through Tiwa country in the Tiguex War of 1540–1541; Oñate's colony brought tribute in 1598, and the friar Juan de Salas built a mission in 1613. Shiewhibak did not join the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and sheltered refugees, but Spaniards burned it in 1681 and carried hundreds south to found Ysleta del Sur in 1682. Diego de Vargas rebuilt the pueblo in the 1690s.