Embedded Document /system/files/2023-07/MCK_SC_ElQuartelejoPuebloRuinsScottCountyKansas_Brantlee.pdf Download this PDF Abstract In this paper, the author discusses the El Quartelejo Pueblo ruins located in present-day Scott County, Kansas. The Taos and the Picuris Indians who came from what is today northwestern New Mexico fled their homelands due to their Spanish overlords who denounced and prohibited the Indians from practicing their religious ceremonies, imposed Christianity upon them, and forced them into labor. Eventually the Spaniards sent a party of soldiers to retrieve the Indians and escort them back. The pueblo the Indians built would lie dormant for nearly 200 years before being discovered again, accidentally, by an early Scott County pioneer, Herbert Steele. Authors Shearmire, Brantlee Date Mar 01, 2010 Tags Multicultural Kansas Exhibit Multicultural Kansas: Indigenous Americans Scott County Publisher Kansas State University, The Chapman Center for Rural Studies Citation Brantlee Shearmire, “El Quartelejo Pueblo Ruins, Scott County, Kansas,” Lost Kansas Communities, https://lostkansas.ccrsdigitalprojects.com/el-quartelejo-pueblo-ruins-scott-county. Rights This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). NOTE: Rights status of accompanying images may differ from text.