Isleta Pueblo

It's the summer of 1629, and we're in what is now New Mexico, just south of present-day Albuquerque, at a Spanish-Franciscan mission in the Pueblo of Isleta.

A group of about 50 indigenous people have arrived at the mission after traveling across the rugged landscape of the American Southwest.

They belong to the Chumano people, whose communities stretch across parts of present-day New Mexico and Texas.

whichever reservation you're closest to.

Down here, it would be the Isleta Pueblo.

There are also missions in Mescalero that you are able to help sow into, be of service anytime we do any kind of community gatherings or...

You know, sometimes they have a community prayer just out in the plaza, make hot dogs, you know, pray, ask people if they need prayer.

All right, we'll come back and wrap things up with Paul Syke next here on NewsRadio KKOB.

All right, we have about a minute left, and our guest has been Paul Syke, recently retired Isleta Pueblo chief of police, retired APD commander, author of Stop Him From Killing Them, and his soon-to-be-released book, his next one, When Men Become Lions.

And every Saturday afternoon, now host of the Chief Paul Syke Show here on NewsRadio KKOB from two to four.

Paul, congratulations on the show.

The honor recognizes the 12-season NHL veteran and one of the most popular players in Vancouver Canucks history.

A year later in 2022, Notah Begay III, Navajo, San Felipe, Isleta, makes his PGA Tour Champions debut at the Constellation Furick & Friends in Jacksonville, Florida.

Begay opens the tournament with a two-over par 74.

Finally, in 2023, Ethan Downs, Osage, turns in a career-best two-sack performance as Oklahoma knocks off third-ranked Texas 34 to 30 in the Red River Rivalry.

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I, I actually, um, I grew up in, um, next to this Isleta, this pueblo called, um, Isleta Reservation Pueblo in New Mexico.

And at, when I would, so this is back in the '80s and '90s, they didn't have, um, a s-, a, an elementary school yet, or so they would send the, like the kids went to school with us.

And I loved on Fridays because they would have, Native American elders would come and they would do story time with us, and it was like two hours or something.