Acoma

American  

[ak-uh-maw-, -muh, ah-kuh] / ˈæk əˌmɔ-, -mə, ˈɑ kə /

noun

1. a Pueblo Indian village near Albuquerque, New Mexico, built on a sandstone mesa: oldest continuously inhabited location in the U.S.

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Acoma

For a counternarrative, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, founded by New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos, and Acoma Sky City, considered the longest continuously inhabited community in North America, offer Indigenous history on Indigenous terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

To Kim Charlie, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma, the debate over the footprints’ age doesn’t change the connection she feels with the people who made them.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023

Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

So Cejudo called it a day and decided to train fighters at Jackson’s MMA Acoma gym in Arizona.

From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023

He watched the shadows carefully, checking up and down the wood-hauling road that came down the broken shale ridge and intersected the Acoma road.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko