Pecos Pueblo was a large and powerful Indian community in the 1500s, existing at the same time with the Comanches and Apaches. It was known as Cicuye before the Spaniards started referring to the tribe as "Pe-kush", a word derived from the Jemez language. These European missionaries wanted to bring to the Indians an understanding of Christianity, and a grand church called the Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porcíuncula (Our Lady of the Angels of Porcíuncula) was constructed and completed in 162...