Traditions at a number of nearby Tewa Pueblos, including San Ildefonso Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Pojoaque Pueblo, and Tesuque Pueblo claim ancestral ties to Tsankawi and other nearby pueblo sites.
Among her prizes, seamlessly incorporated into the architecture, are a large number of Spanish colonial doors, carved beams from Acoma and Gran Quivira, a historic pueblo site, and a rare carved portal beam from 1828 decorated with hex signs and archaic Spanish writing.
Tyuonyi is a circular pueblo site that once stood 1-3 stories tall.
This ancient pueblo site is used as an educational resource in history classes.
Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara.
Point of Pines, actually a series of pueblo sites on a spur off the Nantack Ridge, was also a good location for continuing research that had begun at Kinishba and Forestdale.
Mission Santa Clara was three miles (5 km) from the original San Jose pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara.
The single sheet of "Passages, Mesa Verde" (1977-79), named for the ancient pueblo site in Colorado, is accompanied by sheaves of handmade dirt-colored papers piled on the floor.
Ancient roadways radiate out from the lake to the various pueblos and ancient pueblo sites.
The development of American commercial areas in San Jose extended into this newly surveyed area, just east of the original pueblo site of 1797 (relocated from the 1777 site after major flooding).