Tuf Shur Tia

Tuf Shur Tia, or Sandia Pueblo, lies beside the Rio Grande beneath the Sandia Mountains. Its Tiwa-speaking people cultivated the river valley, where fields and villages formed part of the interconnected Pueblo world of New Mexico. Spanish missionaries established a church at Sandia during the seventeenth century. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, many Sandia people fled west to the Hopi country. Spanish forces destroyed the pueblo in 1681. In 1748 a group of refugees returned from the Hopi mesas to re-establish Sandia, bringing together people whose years of displacement had connected the two regions.

The later city of Albuquerque lies nearby.