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AN ISLETA MAN
Isleta, the most southerly of the Rio Grande pueblos, is like Taos the northernmost of the group, a Tiwa settlement. The Spanish name Isleta refers to the situation of this pueblo at the period of its discovery on an elevation which at times was rendered an "islet" by a mountain freshet on one side and the Rio Grande on the other. The native name, Shie-hwíb-ak "flint kicking-race-stick at"), probably embodies a mythological allusion.