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1	Title: Father Greyrobe: Was He or Wasn’t He? Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight (Author) Account of a Spanish priest who may have survived the Pueblo Revolt. Catholicism was the religion of Spanish conquest. By the late 1600s, it had dominated Pueblo life for well over a century. In the wake of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, few signs of it remained. The leaders killed the mission priests and burned the churc... Show Keywords:
2	Title: Early Life Source(s): Geronimo: His Own Story Author(s): Geronimo (Author); S. M. Barrett (Oral Historian) Famed Chiricahua Apache war chief Geronimo speaks of his childhood and how a boy becomes a warrior. As Told to S. M. Barrett. I was born in No-doyohn Cañon, Arizona, June, 1829. In that country which lies around the headwaters of the Gila River I was reared. This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our wigwams were hidden; the scattered valleys contained our fi... Show Keywords:
3	Title: The Vengeance of Gouyen Source(s): Indeh: An Apache Odyssey Author(s): Eve Ball (Author); Nora Henn (Author); Lynda A. Sanchez The widow Gouyen seeks revenge against a Comanche chief for killing her husband. The Apache girl lay in the brush arbor of her mother-in-law waiting for the older woman to sleep. Her name is one the Apaches are forbidden to mention and she is known today only as Gouyen, Wise Woman, a term reserved only for the intelligent and cha... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Truth of a Hopi Author(s): Edmund Nequatewa (Author) Edmund Nequatewa talks about the time when some Hopis refused to send their children to the boarding school at Keams Canyon. How some Hopis resisted sending their children to school and the trouble that resulted. About this time [1883] the [Bureau of Indian Affairs] agency was established at Keams Canyon, and of course the Hopis knew that this meant peace. So all the ch... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Now You Are Beginning Again Source(s): Dinétah: An Early History of the Navajo People Author(s): Barboncito (Author); Lawrence D. Sundberg (Author) In this passage, Barboncito urges his people to care for their sheep as if they were family members. “Now you are beginning again. Take care of your sheep, as you would care for your own children. Never kill them for food. If you are hungry, go out! Find the wild plants, find the wild animals, or go without food, for you have done that before! The... Show Keywords:
6	Title: Barboncito’s Speech to General Sherman at Fort Sumner Source(s): Dinétah: An Early History of the Navajo People Author(s): Barboncito (Author); Lawrence D. Sundberg (Author) The Navajo leader Barboncito tells General Sherman to release the Navajos from captivity at Fort Sumner. Bringing us here has made many of us die, also a great number of our animals. Our Grandfathers had no idea of living in any other place except our own land, and I don't think it is right for us to do what we were taught not to do. When the Navajo wer... Show Keywords:
7	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... Show Keywords:
8	Title: Two Lives for Oñate Author(s): Miguel Encinias (Author) An excerpt from a novel about Juan de Oñate's campaign to conquer New Mexico in 1598-99. On 12 January 1599, Zaldívar set out for Acoma with seventy soldiers and instructions to demand the delivery of those guilty for the attack on the Spaniards and, failing to achieve that, to wage relentless war and to take all of the inhabitants pris... Show Keywords:
9	Title: The Flaming Arrow Katsina Source(s): Flaming Arrow's People by an Acoma Indian Author(s): James Paytiamo (Author) James Paytiamo tells the story of the katsina whose name he bears. This is the story of the Katsina for whom I was named. It happened that the Sun had a boy born on the earth. The life of this boy came to his mother by the Sun’s rays shining through the gypsum rock window, and when the boy grew up he looked sha... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Borrowed Feathers: Don’t Look Up: Back to Life Source(s): Pueblo Indian Folk Tales Author(s): Hocheni of Acoma (Author); Elsie Clews Parsons (Oral Historian); N. V. Sanchez (Translator) Coyote has a hard time with some pigeons and a spider. Long ago at Hanishoku [a ruin near Acoma] the pigeons (houk) were flying about. They gave Coyote some of their feathers to fly with. Coyote (chuski) was heavy and lagged behind. The pigeons said, “Let us fly up to the water-hole on top of the mesa!... Show Keywords:

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