 A self-guided 1.5-mile loop trail provides access to numerous unexcavated ruins, caves carved into soft tuff, and petroglyphs.The name Tsankawi [səŋˡkɑwi] ("Sa'ekewikwaje Owingeh") may mean "village between two canyons at the clump of sharp round cacti" or more simply, ("san-ke-wii") "Opuntia sharp gap" in the Tewa language of the nearby San Idelfonso puebloans.Tsankawi (san-KAH-wee) was built by ancient Pueblo Indians sometimes known as the Ancestral Pueblo People.