Tuf Shur Tia

Tuf Shur Tia was a Southern Tiwa pueblo on a Rio Grande bend near present-day Albuquerque. Its people lived there from the fourteenth century; the Spaniards called it Sandía.

Coronado's expedition reached the pueblo around 1540, and Franciscans built a mission after 1610. Its people joined Popé's 1680 revolt and fled to the Hopi; the governor burned their abandoned village. In 1742, 441 survivors returned, and in 1762 the governor had the pueblo rebuilt as a buffer against raiders.