The Estate is filled with local art and is rich with the history of the land and the people who lived there. La Mesita Mesa was once the ancestral hub of the people of Pojoaque, who settled there around 500 AD. The area is called Posuwaegeh, which means “water gathering place” in Tewa, the language spoken by the six tribes in the Rio Grande Valley. They thrived for hundreds of years in this place of water, until the 17th century, where they barely survived Spanish colonization, two revolts, and several smallpox epidemics. The tribe was disappearing.