{"id":383,"date":"2015-06-04T19:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2015-06-04T19:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:01:32","slug":"taos-pueblo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Taos Pueblo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taos Pueblo is another site that Sister Jeanne, my art history teacher, introduced me to. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a National Historic Landmark that is located about a mile outside of Taos. It’s\u00a0a community of multi-storied adobe buildings that have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years.<\/p>\n

They tell visitors that the buildings have changed very little over the years. They have added doors and windows. Originally, access was by climbing ladders to the roof and entrance through square holes to descend into the rooms. The buildings within the pueblo do not have electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. Some people do have wood stoves, according to what I was told, but heating is done with small fireplaces.<\/p>\n

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The pueblo is built on the banks of the Red Willow Creek, which is also called Rio Pueblo. The water was very high the day I visited due to all the recent rain.<\/p>\n

The north building is the most frequently photographed part of the pueblo.<\/p>\n

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North building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"South<\/a>
South Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The walls of the buildings are close to a yard thick at the base and get thinner as they go up. The walls of the rooms at the top are around a foot thick. The roofs are supported with cedar beams, a layer of branches, a thick layer of mud and finished with adobe.<\/p>\n

Each year, the buildings are refinished with another coat of mud. There is a great deal of similarity between the Earthships and Taos Pueblo in that they both use the materials they have on hand to create sustainable communities.<\/p>\n

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A stack of adobe bricks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the center of the plaza are racks that they said are for drying food. They also provide nice shade. There is are ovens located conveniently throughout the pueblo. I like the idea of having one under shade.<\/p>\n

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Oven under the drying racks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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!9th century church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a church on the plaza. It it is a replacement for a church that was destroyed by the United States military during the Pueblo Massacre of 1847.<\/p>\n

\"Church<\/a>
Church destroyed in the Pueblo Massacre of 1847<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Graveyard<\/a>
Graveyard near the ruined church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The warm welcome I received from all the members of the Pueblo made me feel so sad about the treatment they received at the hands of the Spaniards and the United States.<\/p>\n

May we all learn to live together in peace and with mutual respect.<\/p>\n

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