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Pablo Abeita
American politician (1871–1940)
Pablo Abeita (1871–1940) was an American politician who was the governor of Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico, United States, during the decades that Father Anton Docher, known as "The Padre of Isleta," served there.[1]
Biography
Born into a native family of Isleta Pueblo, Abeita grew up speaking Tiwa and English.
He was educated in the Jesuit School at Old Albuquerque, then at St Michael's College in Santa Fe. After ten years of formal education, he worked first as a typesetter at the Albuquerque newspaper.
Pablo abita biography
He next worked at a family business in Isleta.
In 1889, at the age of nineteen, Abeita was appointed to serve on the All Indian Pueblo Council, which was organized again after a 300-year hiatus during the colonial period.
In 1913 Abeita was appointed by the tribe as a judge, and elected Secretary of the All Indian Pueblo Council.[2] The Council became active in the 1920s, trying to forestall governm