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San Juan Pueblo

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San Juan Pueblo

American Indian pueblo in northern New Mexico, 43 km/27 mi northwest of Santa Fe and west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, on the Rio Grande; population (1990) 5,200. It is the headquarters of the Northern Indian Pueblo Council. Its crafts include red pottery, wood and stone carvings, and jewellery.

In 1598 its central village was the first Spanish capital in New Mexico. A San Juan medicine man, Popé, led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.
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Onate, a controversial figure in New Mexico history, led an expedition up the Rio Grande to present-day New Mexico in 1598 and founded the first Spanish capital, San Juan de los Caballeros, across the Rio Grande from San Juan Pueblo, now Ohkay Owingeh.
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San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh, or we are the brothers in the Tewa language), [telephone] 505/852-4400, is off State Route 68 five miles north of Espanola.
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