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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...
Show Keywords: 1540s; abandon; Acoma Pueblo; Acus; adventures; Alvarado, Captain Hernando de; ancestral pueblo; ancient times; anthropologists; archaeologists; army; beans; Bigotes; Castilians; Cíbola; commissioner; conquistadores; corn; corn meal; Corn Mountain; Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de; east; edifices; estados; Europeans; explorers; forts; gates; granite; gutters; Hawikuh; Hopi; lava; leagues; lines; malpais; New Spain; Niza, Marcos de; Ojo Caliente; Padilla, Juan de; peace; Pecos; province; repentance; rituals; ruins; sand; settlements; Seven Cities of Cíbola; soldiers; Spanish; stones; Tovar, Pedro de; turkeys; walls; Zia; Zuni; Zuni Pueblo |
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Title: ¡Baile y baile y sin harina! [Broke, but Dancing Up a Storm!]
Source(s): Abuelitos: Stories of the Río Puerco Author(s):
Teodorita García-Ruelas (Author); Nasario García (Editor)
Teodorita García-Ruelas remembers the early days ranching and farming in the Rio Puerco Valley.
Oh! The rancher’s life is the happiest in the world, because you’re your own boss, and everything you raise goes farther. I don’t know what it is, but like today’s jobs, they don’t last. But the rancher’s life is the happiest.
Well, a...
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Title: Woodstove of My Childhood
Source(s): In the Gathering Silence Author(s):
Levi Romero (Author)
A poet describes the woodstove that heated his childhood home in northern New Mexico.
woodstove of my childhood
where potatoes cut like triangle chips were fried
in manteca de marrano
woodstove of lazy autumn smoke swirling away
to nowhere
woodstove of December
evacuating the cold chill at sunrise
woodstove of celebrati...
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Title: Bishop Lamy’s Five Rules for the Brotherhood of Penance, October 27, 1856
Source(s): The Santa Fe New Mexico Sentinel (January 26, 1938, p. 2); Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest Author(s):
Bishop Lamy (Author); Monsignor Philip F. Mahoney (Translator); Marta Weigle (Author)
Bishop Lamy’s Five Rules for the Brotherhood of Penance.
In this the year 1857, there have been granted by His Grace Don Juan Lamy, the permission to continue the devotion of the Passion and Death of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as a penance, by all its devotees. The rules, granted on petition of the President ...
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Title: Abiquiu
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
A short history of Abiquiu and its peoples, including genizaros in the 1700s.
The village of Abiquiu lies in the Chama River Valley on high ground above the Chama River. People made their homes in the Chama River Valley for at least 5,000 years before the establishment of this village in the 1700s. We know this because we find...
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Title: The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey (excerpts)
Author(s):
Grenville Goodwin (Author); Neil Goodwin (Author)
Neil Goodwin retraces the steps of his father, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin, who tried to find Chiricahua Apache groups living in the Sierra Madre of Mexico.
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