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Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wash in Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

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Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wash in Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

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Summary

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. The Crow Canyon site is an excellent example of one of the smaller refugee sites in the area. Situated slightly below the south ridge of Crow Canyon, the site afforded the Pueblo and Navajo with a strategic view of the surrounding valley. The site contains a Pueblito of four rooms, one of which is situated on top of a detached boulder for defensive purposes. One pole from a corner shelf remains in situ in the boulder top room. The walls of the boulder top room stand slightly over six feet tall, but have collapsed on the west side. The three rooms on the ground level have fragmentary walls and roof beams have been strewn about the base of the boulder. The site, containing a mixture of Navajo and Pueblo features, was abandoned around 1750.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N562
Survey number: HABS NM-158

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Pueblo Indians
Navajo Indians
Metzinger, Mira, field team
Shaw, Rodney, field team
Fosberg, Stephen, field team
Jacobson, Louann, field team
Botsford, Manton, field team
Goddard, Roger, project manager
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Thallheimer, Arnold, photographer
Lyons, Samuel, delineator
Miller, Evan, delineator
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