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Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law

Sandia Pueblo Mountain Claim

1985

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A Report Of The Sandia Pueblo East Boundary On Sandia Mountain, Milford T. Keene Oct 1985

A Report Of The Sandia Pueblo East Boundary On Sandia Mountain, Milford T. Keene

Sandia Pueblo Mountain Claim

"'The purpose of this report is to review and address past surveys of the Pueblo grant boundaries, focusing on the east boundary. Specifically, the report considers these two questions: what did the Deputy Surveyor survey, and is the east boundary survey a result of private oral instruction given to the surveyor and not preserved in the documents? Since those who believe that the boundary should have been along ""the Main Ridge of Sandia Mountain,"" the problem is to decide, if possible, where those translations, interpretations, instructions, and surveys went astray and for what apparent reasons. Study of documents on the …


Anthropological Report On Land Use: Pueblo Of Sandia, Elizabeth A. Brandt Sep 1985

Anthropological Report On Land Use: Pueblo Of Sandia, Elizabeth A. Brandt

Sandia Pueblo Mountain Claim

Sandia Pueblo is an Indian community located approximaaiy 13 miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico on the east bank of the Rio Grande river, a few miles to the west of the Sandia Mountains. Archaeological evidence shows that the village site was occupied around 1300 A.D. and that the village has remained in essentially the same area since then. The surrounding area was occupied by Indian hunters as early as 11,000 years ago and there is evidence of numerous smaller sites around Sandia and in the foothills of the mountain dating in the last millenia. Sandia religious practices also show …