The Tiwas (in Spanish, Tigua or Tguex) they form a group linguistic pueblo. The villages where the language is spoken Tiwa they are the pueblos of Taos and Picuris, in the northern part of the I Get back Great, and more to south those of Sandia and Isleta, in the region of Albuquerque. The first Spanish explorers describe the Tiwas as corn's growers, melopoponi, beans and melons, covered with cotton suits and long dresses sorts of feathers. According to their reporter Castaneda the Spaniards ransacked and they destroyed different pueblos, they killed every man and ridusserň in slavery the women and his/her children. It was in the pueblo of Toas that Popé, a head spiritual Tiwa of the pueblo in San Juan, the 1680 big Turned Pueblo planned. Toas is the most northern of the pueblos, a place of natural meeting for the Pueblos and the Indians of the southern Lowlands. It is ' for this motive that in the people of Toas they are present numerous cultural lines of the Lowlands, as to example that of the men to bring woven hair.
