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Title: Zuni
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
Introduction to Zuni
The Zuni, who call themselves A'shiwi, tell the story that long ago their gods cut off the peoples' tails, split the webs between their toes with stone knives, and led them from the underworld to seek their home in the center of the universe. When at...
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Title: Early Accounts of Turquoise Use by Native Americans
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
Spanish explorers on the use of turquoise among the Pueblos
“In this pueblo they were all bedecked with turquoises, which hung from their noses and ears and which they call cacona.…The three days being over, many people gathered to go with me. I selected thirty prominent men, all very well dressed, wearin...
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Title: Invasions
Source(s): Black Mesa Poems Author(s):
Jimmy Santiago Baca (Author)
Poem about waves of conquest and settlement in New Mexico.
6:00 a.m.
I awake and leave to fish
the Jemez.
Coronado rode
through this light, dark
green brush,
horse foaming saliva,
tongue red and dry
as the red cliffs.
Back then the air
was bright and crisp
with Esteban's death
at the hands of Zun...
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Title: Muster Roll
Source(s): Majestic Journey: Coronado’s Inland Empire Author(s):
Stewart L. Udall (Author)
Before Coronado’s expedition into New Mexico, a muster roll was taken describing each traveler in detail.
We know a lot about events that day at Compostela— exactly 192 years before George Washington was born in 1732—because Don Antonio had issued an order that each soldier would pass before an inspector and declare his possessions. Thus, diligent sc...
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Title: Expedition into New Mexico Made by Antonio de Espejo 1582-1583 as Revealed in the Journal of Diego Pérez de Luxan, a Member of the Party
Author(s):
Diego Pérez de Luxan (Author); George Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor)
A merchant from New Spain journeys north as head of a relief party to find two Franciscan monks. Here he describes what his party found at Zuni.
We set out from this place on the fourteenth of the month and marched a league. We halted at the first pueblo of the province of Zuni which they called Malaque, in which we had a row of houses (for our use), and they gave us to eat of what they had u...
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Title: Letter from Coronado to Mendoza
Source(s): The Journey of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, 1540-1542 Author(s):
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (Author); George Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor)
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado wrote this report to Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza describing his expedition into New Mexico in 1540.
Ferrando Alvarado came back to tell me that some Indians had met him peaceably, & that two of them were with the army-master waiting for me. I went to them forthwith and gave them some paternosters and some little cloaks, telling them to return to th...
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Title: Castañeda's History of the Expedition
Source(s): The Journey of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado 1540-1542; Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940 Author(s):
Pedro de Castañeda (Author); George P. Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor)
How the Zunis kill the negro Esteban at Cibola, and how Fray Marcos flees in flight.
CHAPTER III — How they killed the negro Esteban at Cíbola, and how Fray Marcos returned in flight.
When Esteban got away from the said friars, he craved to gain honor and fame in everything and to be credited with the boldness and daring of dis...
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Title: Coronado
Source(s): The Winter Road Author(s):
Louis Jenkins (Author)
Poet Louis Jenkins tells of Coronado's confrontation with the Zunis.
Coronado came up from Mexico in search of the life of the imagination. The Zunis said “Oh God, here comes Coronado and those Spaniards.” The Zunis drew a line on the ground with cornmeal and said “OK Coronado cross that line and you'll be sorry...
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Title: Acoma
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
An introduction to the history and culture of the people of Acoma.
Tribal elders say that Acoma (sometimes spelled Akome, Acuo, Acuco, Ako and A’ku-me) means “a place that always was.” Archaeologists have found artifacts at digs on Acoma Mesa that speak of prehistoric times. Like its near neighbors Hopi and Zu...
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Title: Alvarado’s Route
Source(s): Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540-1542 Author(s):
Don Hernando Alvarado (Author); George P. Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor)
An account of Don Hernando Alvarado’s travels among the Pueblos in 1540.
“We came to an old edifice resembling a fortress; a league farther on we found another one, and a little farther on still another. Beyond these we came to an ancient city, quite large but all in ruins, although a considerable portion of the wall, w...
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