Tompiro Indians
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The Tompiro Indians were Pueblo Indians living in New Mexico. They lived in several adobe villages east of the Rio Grande Valley in the Salinas region of New Mexico. Their settlements were abandoned a
Territory and Settlements and Missions of the Tompiro Indians
Antonio de Espejo
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Antonio de Espejo was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition, accompanied by Diego Perez de Luxan, into what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1582–83. The expedition created interest in establishing
Tompiro Indians
…nuts. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado did not visit the Tompiros during his expedition of 1539–1542. The first Spanish account of the Tompiros is from Antonio de Espejo in 1582–1583. Espejo was greeted with suspicion in the Tompiro settlements. In 1601, the founder of the colony of New Mexico, Juan de Oñate, retaliated…
Frederic Remington's imaginative painting of a Spanish expedition on the march
Taos Pueblo today still resembles the towns Espejo visited in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.
Espejo explored the Verde River valley of Arizona looking for silver mines.