It's a six hour drive from Arvada to Santa Fe, unless you get hung up in terrible traffic
around Colorado Springs. We didn't on the way out ~ but took an extra hour to get through
it on the way home. We went directly to the Hotel Santa Fe, and our home for the week
in the Hotel's Hacienda.
The hotel, owned by the people of the Picuris Puebo, is the only venture of its kind
in the United States. It began in 1988 when local business people approached Picuris
tribal leaders about a joint development. The agreement that ensued is a culturally-honorable
step toward financial independence for the tribe, which settled nearly 800 years ago in a
verdant valley northwest of Santa Fe (“Picuris” means “people of the hidden valley”).
It became one of the largest tribes in the region. By 1900, war, religious strife, and disease
reduced it to the smallest.
In March 1991, Hotel Santa Fe opened.
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