The Isletas are a tribe of Indians of America, of language Tiwa, appartenenti to the group linguistic Kiowa-Tano, appropriated to around twelve miles to south of Alduquerque. Today 2.000 isletanis have survived, that live in a reserve of around 211.000 acrid. In Isleta the francescanis founded a monastery since 1629, but in 1681 the Spaniards commanded by the governor Otermin destroyed Isleta to punish to have taken her/it part to the Big Turned pueblo. The village was reconstructed and again inhabited to the beginnings of the eighteenth century from the Indian Tiwas, that had looked for shelter between the Hopis. Kiowa-Tano. A relationship of the government of the end of the century defines the isletanis industrious agriculturists that raise livestock and they take care of vineyards; it was probably from the monks francescani that arrived from the California that them they learned to cultivate grape, a rare activity between the Indians.
