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1	Title: Zuni Encounters with Anthropologists Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Frank Cushing at Zuni Pueblo Zuni Pueblo has been a crossroads in the American Southwest for hundreds of years. The Zuni world included encounters with neighboring and more distant tribes. The Zuni world expanded with the Spanish entradas beginning in the 1500s. It expanded stil... Show Keywords:
2	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... Show Keywords:
3	Title: The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza Source(s): The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza Author(s): Fray Marcos de Niza (Author); Cleve Hallenbeck (Editor) What happens when Fray Marcos de Niza sends Estevan the Spanish Moor as advance scout in search of the golden Cities of Cibola in 1539. On another route I sent Estevan de Dorantes, the black, whom I instructed to follow to the north for fifty or sixty leagues, to see if by that route he would be able to learn of any great thing such as we sought; and I agreed with him that if he rece... Show Keywords:
4	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... Show Keywords:
5	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:
6	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... 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: Pérez de Villagrá’s Cantos Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight An introduction to Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's poetic history of Spanish battles with Pueblo people in New Mexico in the 1590s. Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá accompanied Juan de Oñate on the Spanish expedition into Nuevo Mexico in 1598. Luckily for history, Villagrá was a poet who recorded the details of the adventures in the rhyming verse of his day. Villagrá modeled his His... Show Keywords:
9	Title: Declaration of Status Source(s): Don Juan de Oñate, Colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628 Author(s): Isabel la mulata (Author); George Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor) Isabel, a woman of Indian and African descent, obtains proof of her freedom before traveling to New Mexico in 1600. In the town of Querétaro in New Spain, January 8, 1600, there appeared before Don Pedro Lorenzo de Castilla, his majesty's alcalde mayor in this town, a mulatto woman named Isabel, who presented herself before his grace in the appropriate legal mann... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Gaspar Villagrá and the Story of His Epic Adventure in the Upper Rio Grande Source(s): Trail Dust Author(s): Marc Simmons (Author); Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (Author) Historian Marc Simmons sketches the life of Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, poet-historian of the Spanish conquest. Captain Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá published an epic poem in 1610. Written in classical style, it was fashioned in imitation of the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil. The poem bore the rather colorless name, Historia de la Nueva Mexico. Villagrá is... Show Keywords:

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