Chinali

On the western Kansas plains, the remains of a seven-room stone pueblo stand near an extensive Plains Apache village site. Archaeologists have associated this place with El Cuartelejo, where Taos people sought refuge from Spanish rule in the 1660s. In 1696 Picuris people also fled north to the Apache, and a Spanish expedition returned them to New Mexico in 1706. The site preserves evidence of encounters between Pueblo and Plains communities.