Joe sando biography

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The first chairman of the All Indian Pueblo Housing Authority and the first chairman of the State Judicial Council, Sando was a commissioner on the Higher.
The first chairman of the All-Indian Pueblo Housing Authority and the first chairman of the State Judicial Council, Sando was a commissioner on the Higher.

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TELLING OUR STORIES: PUEBLO AUTHOR AND TEACHER, DR. JOE S. SANDO

Despite the Pueblo’s long history in the Southwest, little has been written about Pueblo people and our contributions to history. What was written, especially for children, was not always complimentary and lacked accuracy. Dr. Joe S. Sando set out to change that, to correct misconceptions and misinformation. He became one of the first Pueblo people to research, write and talk about our history.

Sando was born on August 1, 1923 into the Sun Clan at Walatowa (Jemez Pueblo) and that was where he grew up. His childhood was typical of Pueblo boys in the 1930s and 40s. When not in school, he herded rams, tended to baby lambs and worked at sheep camp with his brother, Frank. He irrigated and hoed the garden and fields, cut wheat and fetched drinking water.

Joe graduated from Santa Fe Indian School in 1941 then enrolled at Highlands University for the 1942 fall semester. Rather than get drafted to the Army, he signed up for the Navy because the recruiting poster said he would learn a trade in the service. But, he writes,

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Joe Sando, historian from Jemez Pueblo, passes on at age 88

Joe Sando, an author, educator and historian from Jemez Puebloin New Mexico, died on Tuesday. He was 88. Sando was born and raised on the reservation. He left to attend Santa Fe Indian School, where he learned English. Sando enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. Following his return to the U.S., he earned degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and Vanderbilt University and embarked on a lifelong mission to educate the world about his tribe and the Pueblo people. “Mr. Sando knew people from every one of the pueblos. He would ask who you were, who your parents were, who your grandparents were and inevitably he could tie back to someone he knew from the pueblo,” Lela Kaskalla, the president of the board of directors at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, told The Albuquerque Journal. “An individual like Mr. Sando is so rare. You meet a handful of them in your lifetime. He was the life in the Institute for Pueblo Indian Studies. He believed in it; he wanted us to tell our own story.” Sando went on to au