Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New MexicoUnited States Census Printing Office, 1893 - 136 páginas |
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19 pueblos Acoma acres adobe ANCIENT PROVINCE blankets built burros cacique camp ceremonies chief church Cibola civilization color corn crops cultivation dancers desert Eleventh Census Engraving & Printing estufa expedition feet governor H. H. Bancroft herds horses houses Indian agent irrigation Isleta Jemez JULIAN SCOTT Keams Cañon ladder Laguna land Mexican Mexico miles Mishongnavi Moqui pueblos Moqui towns Moquis and Pueblos mountains Navajos Oraibi peach Picuris population pottery priests PROVINCE OF TUSAYAN Pueblo Indians pueblo of Jemez Pueblo of Laguna Pueblos and Pueblos Pueblos of Arizona race river rock ruins sacred San Domingo San Felipe San Juan Santa Fe second mesa Second Moqui Mesa sheep Shimopavi Shoshonean stock Sichumnavi side snake dance Spaniards Spanish Special Agent stone stories Taos Tegua Tesuque Tewa trail tribes United valley village walls Walpi women York Engraving Zuñi
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Página 23 - Garce"s in 1776. The chief at Oraibe was offered a load of provisions to relieve immediate wants, but he proudly declined the gift, as he had nothing to offer in return. He refused to listen to the friars, and in reply to Anza's exhortations declared that as his nation was apparently doomed to annihilation, the few who remained were resolved to die in their homes and in their own faith.
Página 38 - ... that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Página 30 - Each Pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in which we suppose are the springs that furnish the supply to the reservoirs. The exterior walls, which are of stone, have no openings, and would have to be scaled or battered down before access could be gained to the interior. The successive stories are set back, one behind the other. The lower rooms arc reached through trap-doors from the first landing.
Página 30 - Flights of stone steps led from the first to a second landing, upon which the doors of the houses open. Mounting the stairway opposite to the ladder, the chief crossed to. the nearest door and ushered us into a low apartment from which two or three others opened towards the interior of the dwelling. Our host courteously asked us to be seated upon some skins spread along the floor against the wall, and presently his wife brought in a vase of water and a tray filled with a singular substance that looked...
Página 38 - In the case of the United States г1s. Arredondo and others, 6th Peters' Reports, the Supreme Court declare that Congress "have adopted, as the basis of all their acts, the principle that the law of the province in which the land is situated is the law which gives efficacy to the grant, and by which it is to be tested whether it was property at the time the treaties took effect.
Página 144 - Four hundred years ago or so, a frightful storm swept away the enormous leaning rock which served as a ladder, and the patient people — who were away at the time — had to build a new city. The present Acoma was an old town when the first European — Coronado, the famous Spanish explorer — saw it in 1540. With that its authentic history begins — a strange, weird history, in scattered fragments, for which we must delve among the curious "memorials" of the Spanish conquerors and the scant records...
Página 34 - Navajos. They were of some service, and manifested a great desire to aid in every respect. While on this subject I would respectfully represent that these people, numbering some four thousand souls, are in a most deplorable condition, from the fact that the country for several miles around their village, is quite barren and is entirely destitute of vegetation. " 'They have no water for purposes of irrigation, and their only dependence for subsistence is on the little corn they raise when the weather...
Página 31 - There is much uniformity of dress. All are wrapped in Navajo blankets, with broad white and dark stripes, and a crowd at a distance looks like the face of a stratified rock. The external and internal arrangements of the houses are like those of the other town, but there is generally less neatness and thrift in the appearance both of the place and its inhabitants. Camp 95, Oraybe gardens, May 13. — Neither of the chiefs appeared in camp this morning, nor many of their tribe. They are late risers,...
Página 50 - ... and the blood of the people flows through their veins but to poison. There have been times when the anger of Balilokon it seemed no ceremony or prayer could appease ; then hundreds of the people went down to death, and one time, away in the dim past, so many moons ago that their wisest one...
Página 24 - A notable feature of this affair is the fact that the Navajos, being hard pressed, settled near the Moqui towns, and the Moquis sent five of their number to ask aid from the Spaniards. This was deemed a most fortunate occurrence, opening the way to the submission of this nation after an apostasy...