Tsi'ya

Tsi’ya, or Zia Pueblo, stands on a small mesa above the Jemez River in northern New Mexico. Its Keres-speaking inhabitants built with adobe and dark basalt, cultivating the surrounding river country. Zia was among the Pueblo communities that rose against Spanish rule in 1680. The uprising drove the colonists south, but the struggle continued. In 1689 Governor Domingo de Cruzate attacked Zia in an attempt to regain New Mexico. The assault took the pueblo at a heavy cost in lives, although it did not restore Spanish control over the province. Zia endured as a community after the Spanish return in the 1690s.