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1	Title: Report Finds Mine Could Harm Sacred Lake Author(s): Ben Neary, Santa Fe New Mexican (Author) Santa Fe New Mexican article on the Zuni effort to preserve the Salt Lake for religious purposes An Arizona power company’s plan to pump groundwater for a huge coal mine in western New Mexico could harm a lake sacred to Zuni Pueblo, a new hydrology report commissioned by the pueblo says. For years, Zuni Pueblo has opposed plans by the S... Show Keywords:
2	Title: Turquoise Mining in the Southwest Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Turquoise mining among the Pueblos, Spanish, and Americans Archaeologists have also found turquoise mines throughout Mesoamerica. One of the largest mines is in a mountain south of Santa Fe called Cuwimi Kai or Chalchihuitel—“a house inside which turquoise is found.” The Zuni often obtained... Show Keywords:
3	Title: Keneshde Tells His Story Source(s): The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths Author(s): Keneshde (Author); John Adair (Author) A Zuni silversmith tells how he got the first piece of turquoise when he was fifteen from a mine east of Santo Domingo. When I was a boy about fifteen years old, I used to help Kwaisedemon, who was my grandfather, make silver. He was my father's father, and at that time he was an old man. It was hard work for him to pound out silver, so I used to do that for him. In r... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Zuni-Land in 1882 Source(s): Harper’s Magazine; WPA New Mexico Collections Author(s): Sylvester Baxter (Author); B. W. Kenney (WPA Field Writer) Traveler Sylvester Baxter describes the pueblo of Zuni as it appeared in 1882. We finally reached Zuni at noon. The pueblo lies at the foot of the majestic Thunder Mountain. Close by flows the Zuni River. It is but a trickling stream in the dry season, but becomes a torrent in the rainy seasons. Because of flooding, the pueblo ... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Fray Juan Ramírez Comes to Acoma Source(s): K’atsina: A Novel of Rebellion Author(s): Lana M. Harrigan (Author) A novelist's depiction of the arrival of Fray Juan Ramírez in Acoma Pueblo in 1629. That night Juan Ramírez wrapped himself in a coarse woolen blanket and lay down on the hard ground where he would build his house of worship. He was glad the governor and his entourage had departed. The Acoma had taken down baskets of corn, a few... Show Keywords:
6	Title: The Revolt Begins Source(s): K'atsina: A Novel of Rebellion Author(s): Lana M. Harrigan (Author) In this novel, a Spanish-Acoma man and his family face the Pueblo Revolt. By the next moon, Diego returned. The small, wiry Apache seemed made only of hardened sinew. In his black, piercing eyes burned a fire so intense it might have had its origin in Hell. No emotion showed on Hishti’s face as the husband she had not se... Show Keywords:
7	Title: Solomon Bibo Source(s): Trail Dust Author(s): Marc Simmons (Author) Historian Marc Simmons sketches the life of Solomon Bibo, a German Jewish American who served as Governor of Acoma Pueblo. Solomon Bibo, born in German Prussia in 1853, was one of eleven children. Right after our Civil War (1861-1865), two older Bibo brothers, Nathan and Simon, immigrated to the United States. They came to Santa Fe, where Nathan worked for the Spiegel... Show Keywords:
8	Title: Navajo Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Navajo history: early migration from Alaska and Canada to encounters with the Spanish and war with the United States; concludes with an account of contemporary Navajo life. Traditional Navajo, or Diné, stories tell that First Man, First Woman, the Holy People, and all the animals had to pass through three different worlds before emerging into the Fourth or Glittering World. Here, the People saw four rivers bounded by f... Show Keywords:
9	Title: The Los Alamos Museum Source(s): The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 Author(s): Arthur Sze (Author) Poem describing replicas of the atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man at the Los Alamos Museum. In this museum is a replica of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” In “Little Boy,” a radar echo set off an explosive which drove a ura- nium-235 wedge into a larger uranium target, while in “Fat Man.” the ordinary explosive crushed a holl... Show Keywords:
10	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:

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