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1	Title: 1910 Source(s): Chants Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem about discrimination along the Texas-Mexico border. In Mexico they bowed their heads when she passed. Timid villagers stepped aside for the Judge's mother, Doña Luz, who wore her black shawl, black gloves whenever she left her home— at the church, the mercado, and the plaza in th... Show Keywords:
2	Title: Lanyade Source(s): The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths Author(s): John Adair (Author) The first Zuni silversmith was a man named Lanyade. He tells this story at the age of 95. When I was a young man about thirty years old [1872], a Navajo came to Zuni who knew how to make silver. This mans Navajo name was Atsidi Chon. I had traveled through the Navajo country a good many times, on my way to the Hopi villages, and I knew ... 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: Hopi Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight An introduction to and overview of the Hopi material in Southwest Crossroads. The villages of Hopi are the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in North America. Oraibi, the oldest village, dates back to about 1125 A.D. Present-day Hopis live in thirteen villages on and around three mesas in northern Arizona. For hundr... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Nampeyo Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight How Nampeyo revived old design traditions among Hopi potters. During the 1870s and 1880s, a young Hopi woman named Nampeyo searched for potsherds in the ancient village of Sikyatki on First Mesa. Nampeyo was the daughter of Qotca Ka-o (White Corn), who was a member of the Tewa Corn Clan. Her Hopi father was a ... Show Keywords:
6	Title: Hopi Weaving Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief history of weaving among the Hopi. The origins of Hopi weaving extend deep in time. For many centuries, Hopi men grew short-staple cotton that they spun into thread and then wove into fabric. They used an upright loom to weave blankets and cloth. The fabric was made into everyday clot... Show Keywords:
7	Title: Ancestral Boundaries Source(s): Hopi Voices: Recollections, Traditions, and Narratives of the Hopi Indians Author(s): Bert Puhueyestewa (Author); Harold Courlander (Editor) Names the shrines that mark the boundaries of Hopi lands. There are eight major Hopi shrines that mark the extent of our traditional Hopi country. One is at Tokonave, Black Mountain (the whites call it Navajo Mountain) in the north. Another is on the Supai Trail west of Grand Canyon Village. One is at Kawes... Show Keywords:
8	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:
9	Title: Corn Source(s): The Zuni Indians and Their Uses of Plants Author(s): Matilda Coxe Stevenson (Author) Anthropologist Matilda Stevenson describes the many ways in which Zuni people use corn. Though not indigenous to the United States, corn was the staple food of the inhabitants of the Southwest long before the coming of the Spaniards in the middle of the sixteenth century, having been brought to this section either by peoples migrating f... Show Keywords:
10	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:

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