The inhabitants of the Pueblo traditionally speak Isletan Tiwa, one of the two varieties of the Southern Tiwa language, part of the Tanoan branch of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family. The population of Pueblo of Isleta consists mostly of the Southern Tiwa ethnic group ( Spanish: Tigua ). It was the largest acquisition of this kind handled under the Barack Obama administration.

The tribe had worked for more than 20 years to acquire this land, once part of their ancestral homeland. It enlarged their communal territory by 50%. On January 15, 2016, the tribe's officials and federal government representatives held a ceremony to mark the government's taking into federal trust some 90,151 acres of land (140 square miles) which the Pueblo had then purchased. The Isleta Pueblo Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The pueblo was built on a knife-shaped reef of lava running across an ancient Rio Grande channel. It is adjacent to and east of the main section of Laguna Pueblo. Pueblo of Isleta is located in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. Its people are a federally recognized tribe. The Southern Tiwa name of the pueblo is Shiewhibak (Shee-eh-whíb-bak) meaning 'a knife laid on the ground to play whib', a traditional footrace. Pueblo of Isleta ( Southern Tiwa: Shiewhibak, Western Keres: Dîiw'a'ane Navajo: Naatoohó ) is an unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established in the c. Isleta Lakes Recreational Complex and tribal casino. Adobe San Agustín de la Isleta Mission, with wooden Gothic Revival elements introduced by Padre Anton Docher, shown in 1925.

Isleta resort and casino amphitheater