Poppies Fest - 2017

Enjoying the Poppies Fest of 2017. Two young ladies visited the Poppies Fest in their wagon powered by father. Location - Franklin Mountains - El Paso, Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Vanessa Delgado and Nigel Sherman with El Paso City TV. Our business name for our t-shirts is called EP Streetwear. Check us out on Facebook! https://m.facebook.com/ElPasoTshirts/

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Craig Rainer and his son enjoying the Poppies Fest - 2017. Location was 4301 Transmountain - El Paso, Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Elia Perez, representative on the Museums and Cultural Affairs Advisory Board talking with a visitor to the El Paso Museum of Archaeology during the Poppies Fest - 2017. She is also a local Archaeologist and a member of our Accessions Committee for MCAD.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Performers at Poppies Fest event in El Paso, Texas - 2017. Jake Nail and his daughter, Elora. They are from the SCA (Citadel of the Southern Pass).

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Visitor to Mini- Digie during the Poppies Fest - 2017.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017 - El Paso, Texas

Dancers performing at the Poppies Fest - 2017. Location 4301 Transmountain - El Paso, Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

Staff from MCAD at the Poppies Festival 2017. (In order of appearance from left to right)Erin E Ritier, David Jerome, Tracy B Jerome, Elvira Carrizal - Dukes, Barbara Angus. This is an event that happens annually every year in El Paso, Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

A member of “The Citadel of the Southern Pass” teaching local El Pasoens archery at the 2017 Poppies Festival. This is an event that happens annually each year in El Paso Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

A member of “The Citadel of the Southern Pass” teaching local El Pasoens archery at the 2017 Poppies Festival. This is an event that happens annually each year in El Paso Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

“The Citadel of the Southern Pass” teaching local El Pasoens archery at the 2017 Poppies Festival. This is an event that happens annually each year in El Paso Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

Members of “The Citadel of the Southern Pass” teaching local El Pasoens archery at the 2017 Poppies Festival, This is an event that happens annually each year in El Paso Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Festival 2017

A member of “The Citadel of the Southern Pass” teaching local El Pasoens archery at the 2017 Poppies Festival. This is an event that happens annually each year in El Paso Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppy festival 2017

(In order of appearance from left to right) Kaitlin Bantley, Sonia Pierce store sales clerks at the El Paso Archeology Museum.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Poppies Fest - 2017

Poppies Fest - 2017 - Picture Of The Week Dancers performing at the Poppies Fest - 2017. One of the more colorful signs it’s springtime in El Paso is when the Mexican Gold Poppies come out of hibernation and dot Castner Range in a blaze of yellow. And there’s no better time and place to see the picturesque landscape than at the annual Poppies Fest. The free family-friendly event is this Saturday, April 1, 2017 at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology on Transmountain Road from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. http://kisselpaso.com/el-paso-poppies-fest-this-weekend/

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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El Paso Museum of Archaeology - Poppies Fest - 2017

El Paso Museum of Archaeology - Poppies Fest - 2017

Area: Northeast / Castner Heights

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The Tiguas - Poppies Fest - El Paso, Texas

Tiguas perform at the Poppies Fest - El Paso, Texas 2017. The Tigua called their ancestral home Pueblo Gran Quivera. Gran Quivera was north of El Paso in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Albuquerque. Manzano means Apple in Spanish so these are the Mountains of the apple. Gran Quivera was started about A D 800. By 1300 it was one of the largest Pueblos. The Spanish explorer Coronado was the first European to see Gran Quivera in 1539. The Spanish called Gran Quivera "Pueblo de los Humanas", which means "city of the humans". In the 1600s more Spanish came and founded missions and settlements in New Mexico around Gran Quivera. With the Spanish came diseases and epidemics that killed many of the Pueblo Indians including the Tigua of Gran Quivera. The Spanish also would take Pueblo Indians to act as slaves in their settlements. In the 1670s there was a bad drought that lasted several years. Food was in short supply. The population of Gran Quivera dwindled and got smaller and smaller. By 1675 they were desperate so they left. They went south to the Rio Grande River near modern El Paso. They settled there and started farming. Some of the Tigua went north to live with their close relatives at Isleta Pueblo. The Isleta Puebloans spoke Tiwa like the Tigua. Gran Quivera was left abandoned. The ruins are still there and are protected by the National Park Service. n 1680 all the Pueblo Indians revolted against the Spanish. They drove the Spanish out of New Mexico and down to El Paso. In 1681 Spanish came back and attacked Isleta Pueblo. Many of the Isleta Puebloans managed to run away and escape. But, the Spanish captured many of them. The Spanish forced these Isleta Pueblo prisoners to come with them to El Paso. These were both Isleta Puebloans and Tiguas. The Isleta Indians who ran away did come back to their Pueblo and made peace with the Spanish. Isleta Pueblo is still there today and the Isleta Pueblos still live there on a reservation. In 1682 the Tigua and Isleta near El Paso founded Ysleta. Ysleta is a different way of spelling Isleta. They did this to avoid confusion with Isleta. By this time they had become Christians and they built a mission church at Ysleta. The Ysleta mission is the oldest church in Texas and the oldest mission in Texas. The Spanish King gave them a grant of land around their Pueblo. This gave them title to the land. The Ysleta mission and the Pueblo were right next to the expanding town of El Paso. Eventually the Tigua were living as a suburb of El Paso. The still live there today. Their neighborhood is called in Spanish "El barrio de los Indians". After the Americans took over in 1848 of crooked land speculators stole much of the Tigua land from them. The State of Texas ignored the Tigua's Spanish land grant and title to the land. www.TexasIndians.com Much of present day El Paso is built on land taken from the Tigua. This left the Tigua very poor. Only the land around the Ysleta mission and their houses was still theirs. http://www.texasindians.com/tigua.htm

Area: Northeast / Castner Heights

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The Tigua Basket Dance - El Paso, Texas

This photo taken by Everett Thomas is of The “Basket Dance” as being performed by the Tigua Youth Dancers; The Tigua is a Native American tribe located close to the city of El Paso, Texas.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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The Eagle Dance

This photo taken by Everett Thomas is of The “Eagle dance” as being performed by the Tigua Youth Dancers; a local Native American tribe located close to the city of Socorro. “The Eagle Dance is a tribute to the great American eagle which is respected and honored by our Pueblo.”- ysletadelsurpueblo.org

Image Description:Young boy from the Tigua tribe dances The Eagle Dance at the Poppy Festival. He wears a headdress in the shape of an eagle head with opened wings attached to his hands. His long sleeve shirt is teal with three long black stripes along his chest. There is a dangling sash around his arms and head. He wears a red belt with white bottoms with feathers and motifs. Along with shoes that are teal with fluffy tops around his ankles. Red beads adorn the tops of them. There are groups of people behind him watching attentively. One man is sitting in a metal chair with a hazard vest on.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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