1、It was getting colder, and the wind pushed gray dust down the narrow pueblo road.

2、The largest Indian settlement and subsequent Spanish pueblo were near today’s downtown, somewhat elevated and safe from floods.

3、Although they at that time became part of the United States, the pueblo lands never formally constituted a part of federal public lands.

4、Therefore, the reserved water rights of Pueblo Indians have priority over other citizens' water rights as of 1848, the year in which pueblos must be considered to have become reservations.