American Indians - first families of the Southwest (1920) (14775865172)

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Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest

Year: 1920 (1920s)

Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred

Subjects: Indians of North America

Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey

Contributing Library: Cornell University Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and ask no aid of Wash-ington; Indians who were farmers and irrigators before the new world was dis-covered. That was written of the Pueblo and of no other tribe in America can it besaid. And they were hunters and warriors, too, but only when war was broughtto them. The Cochiti tribe of the Pueblo live on the Rio Grande, about eightmiles northeast of Domingo, N. M. Once they were a people strong enough tobe an important factor in the Indian revolt against Spain, back in the Seventeenthcentury. Now there are hardly 300 of them left on their reservation of 24,000acres. When the Spaniards caine north from Mexico on their exploration tours theybrought with them sheep and goats. The Pueblo secured sheep from the Span-iards and from that time they were shepherds as well as farmers. They woveblankets before the Navaho knew how. Many of the ancient Pueblo were exten-sive agriculturists. Their small fields were irrigated from living streams or fromstorage reservoirs. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®

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^jSr&imv^^M-t^;:- A COCHITI CHIEF Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Laguna, a Typical Pueblo IndianVillage Long before the English colonists had formed anything like organizedgovernment on the Atlantic coast the Pueblo Indians were living in towns underan elective administration. Each community chose officers corresponding togovernor, lieutenant governor and a board of advisers. Laguna, (named froma large pond near by) a typical village, is one of the later settlements, dating from1699. It stands sixty-six miles west of Albuquerque. The pueblos, or villages, are generally built in terrace fashion, the upper tiersof the houses setting back from those next below, so that the roofs of the lowerhouses formed a sort of front yard for those above. The fire is in a pit in the floor,the smoke finding its way out through an opening in the roof. Corner fire placesare also used, and with the Spaniards came modern improvements, such as doorsand shutters. In the early days the rooms were necessarilycu31924028656738

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