Tanoan

The Tanoan group joins the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, who speak Tiwa, Tewa and Towa, and the Kiowa of the Great Plains. The Pueblos live in farming towns along the Rio Grande and its tributaries.

Coronado's expedition fought the Tiwa pueblos in the Tiguex War of 1540, and Juan de Oñate founded the first Spanish colony in 1598. In 1680 the Pueblos rose under Popé and drove the Spaniards out of New Mexico. The Kiowa came from western Montana, moved south into the Colorado Rockies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and reached the Southern Plains by the early nineteenth, hunting bison from horseback.