Halona Idiwan'a

Halona Idiwan’a is a Zuni pueblo in the valley of the Zuni River. It was one of the communities known to the Spanish as the cities of Cíbola, a group of villages surrounded by fields in a dry plateau country. A Franciscan mission was established here in the seventeenth century. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Zuni killed the priest at Halona and burned the church. They withdrew to the defensible mesa of Dowa Yalanne, remaining there after the Spanish return to New Mexico. Around 1699 they resettled together at Halona, forming the community that became Zuni Pueblo.