Iałopháybo

Iałopháybo, the Northern Tiwa name for Taos Pueblo, lay north of Santa Fe. Its people had built adobe house-blocks before 1100, and traded maize and turquoise for hides with Plains hunters.

Coronado's men reached Taos in 1540. A church rose around 1620, but the people killed its priest and destroyed it in 1660. Taos became a center of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt that expelled the Spaniards from New Mexico. De Vargas reconquered it in the 1690s; the people traded and intermarried with the Comanche through the eighteenth century.