Pablo Abeita

The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871–1940

Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780826364883
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This is the first biography of a Pueblo leader, Pablo Abeita, a man considered as the most important Native leader in the Southwest in his day. Pablo Abeita's life in Isleta Pueblo, just south of Albuquerque, was a colorful and important one. Educated in the best schools in New Mexico, Abeita became a strong advocate for Isleta and the other eighteen New Mexico pueblos during the periods of assimilation, boarding schools, and the reform of US Indian policy. Working with some of the most progressive Indian agents in New Mexico, with other Pueblo leaders, and with advocacy groups, he received funding for much-needed projects, such as a bridge across the Rio Grande at Isleta. To achieve these ends, Abeita testified before Congress and was said to have met, and in some cases befriended, nearly every US president from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Abeita dealt with many issues that are still relevant today, including reform of US Indian policy, boarding schools, and Pueblo sovereignty. Pablo Abeita's story is one of a people still living on their ancestral homelands, struggling to protect their land and water, and ultimately thriving as a modern pueblo.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Frontispiece
• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Usage
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Pablo Abeita: An Overview of His Life and Times
• Chapter 2. Pablo Abeita and Charles F. Lummis
• Chapter 3. Photography at Isleta Pueblo: The 1912 D. W. Griffith Movie and the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913
• Chapter 4. Abeita and Father Ketcham: The Bridges over the Rio Grande
• Chapter 5. Pablo Abeita in the Pueblo
• Chapter 6. Pablo Abeita and the Railroad
• Chapter 7. Pablo Abeita and Indian Education
• Chapter 8. Pablo Abeita and the Court of Indian Offesnses
• Chapter 9. Pablo Abeita as Advocate for the Pueblos
• Chapter 10. Pablo Abeita’s Quest for the Crest
• Appendix 1. Indian Agenst and Superintendants in New Mexico
• Apendix 2. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
• Appendix 3. Isleta Pueblo Governors
• Appendix 4. Pablo Abeita Marriage Record
• Appendix 5. Pablo Abeita Geneaology
• Appendix 6. Pablo Abeita’s Letters
• Appendix 7. Cases in Judge Abeita’s Court of Indian Offenses
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index