The Pueblo Huque Wenge has been here through generations in countless centuries.
The buildings have evolved.
Mud plaster and the adobes are a traditional part of how this place was built and how it
has maintained for centuries and the mud plaster to highlight that is an integral part of that
lifestyle.
I always refer to adobe and the mud plaster as the original green here, a lot about green
building and as far as sustainability it doesn't get much greener than this.
Part of the reason that this work is so important is that we get more technologically advanced.
I think we realize that we've lost some of our roots and we've lost our ability to provide
simply for ourselves from within our own communities.
This is an exemplary of where we need to go.
True meaning of the word Pueblo is a community and doing the restoration project that we're
doing is actually reinvigorating the community and bringing people back to the historic core.
It was incredible to understand how a person and a family and a building aren't separate
entities in a place.
They're all connected and really when they start talking about the place that they're
living in as being part of their direct ancestry, not the home that their ancestors lived in,
but part of their ancestry.
They used to tell us a home is like a person.
You take care of it, it takes care of you.
This used to be my grandfather's house and it's been here for years.
I'm content at this house.
I'm happy with what we have and I always will be.
Jenny was one of the project clients and at first she wasn't really quite sure about the
project and what we were up to and then she came to one of our mud plaster trainings where
they were learning the traditional practice of the mud applied plaster and she remembered
helping her grandma do it and I think it just sparked something for her.
I enjoyed it and it was fun, but a lot of work.
It's very much a living Pueblo, watching all the different generations and physically
experiencing the work that we've done on the homes where when you take off the plaster
you see this evolution of building episodes that represents centuries.
Now it feels good because people are coming back.
You hear kids running around and neighbors, you know, talking with each other and stuff
and before there was hardly anybody.
Now everybody's trying to get along with each other again and hopefully there'll be more
people in the Pueblo again.
