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1	Title: Zuni Salt Lake through the Lens of Time Source(s): The Beautiful and the Dangerous Author(s): Barbara Tedlock (Author) Barbara Tedlock's description of Hapiya praying at the Salt Lake. Hapiya stood at the end of a wooden plank someone had abandoned between the salt mine and cinder cones. He stooped down, made a hole at his feet, and then straightened up, facing east, to begin a long prayer. Near the end of the prayer he bent to ... Show Keywords:
2	Title: Zuni Salt Lake through the Lens of Time Source(s): The Beautiful and the Dangerous Author(s): Barbara Tedlock (Author) Barbara Tedlock's description of an Anglo salt miner's view of Zuni Salt Lake On the north side of the lake are various buildings and pieces of equipment having to do with past and present salt-mining activities. Coming in closer, the water seemed low, and there were only a few white patches along the shore. We talked with ... Show Keywords:
3	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:
4	Title: Turquoise in the History of the Southwest Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Turquoise in the ancient Southwest Throughout history, peoples around the world have revered turquoise for its beauty. Turquoise comes from the earth but is the color of the sky. Indians of the American Southwest associate the semi-precious stone with early tribal stories and prayer. ... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Early Accounts of Turquoise Use by Native Americans Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Spanish explorers on the use of turquoise among the Pueblos “In this pueblo they were all bedecked with turquoises, which hung from their noses and ears and which they call cacona.…The three days being over, many people gathered to go with me. I selected thirty prominent men, all very well dressed, wearin... Show Keywords:
6	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:
7	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:
8	Title: Turquoise Trail Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Turquoise trade and Zuni jewelry. The Zuni traded for turquoise stones for hundreds of years. They traded with the Santo Domingo and Cochiti Indians who had access to the turquoise mines. Later on the Spanish seized control of the mines. In the late 1800s Anglo mining interests took ... Show Keywords:
9	Title: Who Is Chakwaina? Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Origins of the Chakwaina katsina. In 1529, Spanish explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Baca and three companions survived a shipwreck at the mouth of what is now known as the Mississippi River. Esteban, a black Moorish slave, was among the survivors. For seven years, the four Spaniards w... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Father Greyrobe: Was He or Wasn’t He? Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Account of a Spanish priest who may have survived the Pueblo Revolt. Catholicism was the religion of Spanish conquest. By the late 1600s, it had dominated Pueblo life for well over a century. In the wake of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, few signs of it remained. The leaders killed the mission priests and burned the churc... Show Keywords:

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