Pablo Abeita

In 1889, at the age of nineteen, Abeita was appointed to serve on the All Indian Pueblo Council, which was organized again after a 300-year hiatus during the colonial period.

Abeita became friends with Father Anton Docher, a French missionary priest who was assigned in 1891 to the parish church at Isleta Pueblo, and served there until his death in 1928.

In October 1919, Albert I, king of the Belgians, visited Pueblo Isleta with his wife Elisabeth and prince Leopolde, and the royal entourage.

He decorated both Governor Abeita and his friend Father Anton Docher, who had served for decades at the pueblo church, with the Order of Leopold of Belgium.

[3] The KiMo Theater, located at 419-423 Central Avenue in Downtown Albuquerque was built in 1927. its owners held a naming contest to raise interest in the new venue.