Feliciana Tapia Viarrial helped establish today’s Pueblo of Pojoaque. Pojoaque, or Posuwageh, meaning water drinking place, is a Tewa village founded circa A.D. 900. By 1919, the Pojoaque homelands were severely diminished, and most members left for neighboring Pueblos and Colorado. After 1932, including Feliciana’s, families returned when the federal government restored their homelands. The mother of eleven, Feliciana was a matriarch of the community as it revitalized its culture.