As the recorded guide makes sure to state at the very beginning of the walking tour, this place was never home to Aztecs; that was just a name the Spaniards liked. We can think of the name as referring more to the name of the town nearby. From about 1100 to 1300 in our years, ancestors of people now living in at least 26 Pueblo communities across the western United States thrived here and are honored in ceremony to this day.
