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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...
Show Keywords: 1690s; Americans; Baca, Jimmy Santiago; Buffalo God; conquistadores; corn; Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de; cottonwoods; Eighth; Eleventh; elms; Esteban; Europeans; fish; invasions; Jemez Pueblo; Jemez River; Moors; Ninth; Pecos Pueblo; poem; Pueblo Revolt; Seven Cities of Cíbola; Seventh; Spanish; Tenth; Twelfth; warriors; white men; Zunis |
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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...
Show Keywords: 1540s; adobe; ATM; cities; coast; conquistadores; corn; corn meal; Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de; Estancia; God; gold; grasses; houses; Jenkins, Louis; jokes; Kansas; lines; Mexico; miles; Minnesota; mud; New Mexico; patience; plains; poem; poets; prose; prose poem; Pueblo Indians; pueblos; rewards; Seven Cities of Cíbola; silver; Spanish; wind; workers; Zuni Valley; Zunis |
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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...
Show Keywords: 1200s; 1500s; 1560s; 1580s; 1590s; 1600s; 1620s; 1680s; 1690s; 1700s; 1800s; 1900s; Acoma Mesa; Acoma Pueblo; Acomas; Alvarado, Captain Hernando de; Americans; ancestral pueblo; animals; archaeologists; armor; artifacts; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad; Battle of Acoma; battles; beans; Bigotes; burros; camps; cannons; cantos; captains; Catholicism; Chaco Canyon; chiefs; church; citadels; clans; cliffs; colonialism; Colorado; commerce; conceive; conquistadores; consumerism; converts; corn; cornfields; Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de; cows; crops; dances; daughters; death; defend; digs; disasters; elders; emigration; Enchanted Mesa; Espejo, Antonio de; expeditions; exploitation; farming; Father Sun; fields; fire; Franciscans; fruit; girls; guides; Hawikuh; Hopi; horses; Iatiku; immigration; indigenous people; Jemez Pueblo; journeys; katsinam; Keresan; kivas; malpais; McCarty's; Mesa Verde; mesas; Mexico; migration; miners; missionaries; missions; mutilation; names; Nautsiti; Navajos; neighbors; New Mexico; New Spain; Niza, Marcos de; Oñate, Juan de; oral history; oral tradition; origin stories; paths; peace; Pecos Pueblo; pictograph; plants; poem; poets; potsherds; potters; pottery; prehistory; presents; priests; Pueblo Revolt; pueblos; raids; railroad; rains; Ramírez, Fray Juan; rebellions; reconquest; rhymes; Rio Grande; rituals; rivers; routes; ruins; salt; servants; settlements; sheep; sisters; sky; slave trade; slaves; Snake Dance; snakes; societies; soldiers; sons; Southwest Crossroads Spotlight; Spain; Spanish; squash; stories; storytellers; surrender; tales; television; tourist; tourist art; traditions; trails; trees; twins; underground; United States; uranium; valleys; Vargas, Don Diego de; veterans; villages; Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de; walls; warriors; water; World War II; Zaldívar, Juan de; Zaldívar, Vicente de; Zuni |
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Title: On Story
Source(s): Writing the Southwest Author(s):
Simon Ortiz (Author); David King Dunaway (Editor); Sara L. Spurgeon (Editor)
A noted Acoma author on the importance of storytelling and poetry to life.
Everything is a story, in the sense that the tradition out of which poetry and song comes is like the story of the life of a people. That is, the culture survives because of the story of its birth, and goes on into its development and to the end of a...
Show Keywords: 1990s; Acoma Pueblo; beings; birth; cultures; cycles; energies; essences; expression; languages; life; life road; narrators; oral history; oral tradition; Ortiz, Simon; people; perceive; poem; poets; prayers; songs; spirituality; stories; storytellers; survive; traditions |
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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: 1550s; 1590s; 1598; 1600s; 1610s; Acoma Pueblo; Acomas; adventures; Alcalá de Henares; ambition; battles; books; captains; church; colonialism; columns; commanders; conquistadores; details; entradas; epic poem; expeditions; favors; Historia de la Nueva México; history; Isleta Pueblo; journalism; kills; kings; Madrid; men; Mexico; Mexico City; military; money; New Mexico; Oñate, Juan de; officers; oral history; poem; poets; publish; Puebla; Rio Grande; Rome; Salamanca; sanctuary; Santa Fe New Mexican; settlements; settlers; Simmons, Marc; soldiers; Spain; students; supplies; supply masters; Trail Dust; universities; viceroys; Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de; Virgil; Zuni; Zuni Pueblo; Zunis |
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Title: A Voice
Source(s): My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults Author(s):
Pat Mora (Author)
A poem describing the narrators mothers struggle to learn English.
Even the lights on the stage unrelenting
as the desert sun couldn’t hide the other
students, their eyes also unrelenting,
students who spoke English every night
as they ate their meat, potatoes, gravy.
Not you. In your house that smelled lik...
Show Keywords: America; audience; aunts; blood; breath; capitols; countries; courage; courts; democracies; deserts; El Paso; English; eyes; faces; families; fathers; fights; generations; grandparents; gravy; halls; hide; hoarseness; houses; ice; judges; languages; lights; meat; Mexican Revolution; Mexicans; Mexico; Mora, Pat; natives; neighbors; New Mexico; nights; parents; patriotism; peacocks; poem; poets; potatoes; powders; pride; race; rivers; roses; songs; Spanish; speech; states; stories; storytellers; sun; Texas; theaters; throat; trees; trucks; understand; voices; whisper; wind; wins; words; writers; years |
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Title: Something
Source(s): Sofia Poems Author(s):
Joan Logghe (Author)
A poem about Sephardic Jews in New Mexico.
Sofia had a secret even Sofia didn’t know. Something about candles at night, no taste of pork in her grandmother’s house. Something.
Shadowed memory of her grandmother in her dark bedroom, her voice nearly a whisper. It passes down through the...
Show Keywords: air; autumn; awards; beds; blood; butcher; candles; Christmas; daughters; Española; farolitos; flour; grandmother; grandparents; handsome; houses; Israel; Jews; kitchens; lights; Logghe, Joan; Mass; memory; Mexico; mothers; New Mexico; nights; photography; pines; poem; poets; pork; Saint Esther; secrets; senses; shadows; smells; Sofia; Spain; Sunday; tastes; tops; voices; whisper; wins; women; writers; years |
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Title: The Arrival of My Mother New Mexico Territory, 1906
Source(s): Lion’s Gate Selected Poems 1963-1986 Author(s):
Keith Wilson (Author)
Poem describing the authors mothers arrival in New Mexico territory at the age of 25.
She got off, according to her diary,
dressed in a lovely beaded gown, fresh
from Washington with sixteen trunks of ballgowns,
chemises, blouses (4 Middle), shoes and assorted
lingerie. She was at that time about 25, old
for an unmarried wom...
Show Keywords: 1900s; 1920s; April; arrivals; awards; beds; birds; blouses; breath; childhood; cities; dances; deserts; diaries; dresses; dust; elders; embarrassment; eyes; fathers; hands; hats; hills; houses; katsinam; kivas; Las Cruces; laugh; letters; life; lingerie; loneliness; masks; mothers; New England; New Mexico; New Mexico State University; paint; passengers; picnics; pictures; poem; poets; pride; railroad; rents; ride; riders; Rio Pecos; ripen; sand; settlements; shoes; shoots; single; sisters; sounds; stage coaches; stones; sun; sunsets; teach; tents; territory; thoughts; uncle; Washington, DC; Wilson, Keith; wind; wins; women; woods; writers; years |
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Title: Prefacio [Preface]
Source(s): Abuelitos: Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley Author(s):
Sabine R. Ulibarrí (Author); Nasario García (Editor)
It is necessary to know where you come from to know where you are and what you are, in order to know where you are headed and who you will be. Nasario García knows very well where he comes from. That is why his road in life is well marked.
Kindn...
Show Keywords: 1500s; 1900s; ancestors; birth; children; circumstances; conflicts; congratulations; conquistadores; conserves; cultures; elders; evolution; faiths; García, Nasario; good faith; grandfather; ground; hardships; hearts; heroes; hispanics; history; humor; kindness; kings; lands; life road; lights; loves; loyalty; Mexico; miracle; New Mexicans; New Mexico; oral history; orient; pages; past; poem; pride; princes; princesses; reality; Rio Puerco; Rio Puerco Valley; roads; rural; saga; sentimentality; sierras; Spanish; stoicism; stories; survive; tales; Tierra Amarilla; time; traditions; Ulibarrí, Sabine R.; values; verses; victory; villages; voices; writers |
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Title: Alabados
Source(s): Brothers of Light: The Penitentes of the Southwest Author(s):
Alice Corbin Henderson (Author)
A description of traditional Spanish alabados, or hymns, that the Penitentes sang during their rituals.
Parts of the Penitente ritual have an ancestry of great age. This is particularly true of the alabados, or hymns, patiently written down in small copybooks or transmitted by memory. In verse forms these alabados have the earmarks of Fifteenth- or Six...
Show Keywords: 1400s; 1500s; 1600s; ancestors; audience; brothers; Brothers of Light; cemeteries; Christianity; copybooks; death; deserts; disciplines; dissonance; expression; funerals; Gregorian chants; ground; harmonies; hearts; Henderson, Alice Corbin; Henderson, William Penhallow; hymns; Jesus Christ; life; march; memory; men; metaphysical; Moors; music; musicians; mysteries; narrators; New Mexicans; notes; origins; penitentes; pilgrimages; pitch; poem; poets; purification; relations; religion; repentance; rituals; sacred; saetas; salvation; Santa Fe; Seville; simplicity; songs; souls; spaces; Spain; Spanish; speaks; spirits; stoicism; traditions; unison; verses; Virgin Mary; Virgin of Guadalupe; voices; whips; whistles; writers |
