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1	Title: Zuni Encounters with Anthropologists Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight Frank Cushing at Zuni Pueblo Zuni Pueblo has been a crossroads in the American Southwest for hundreds of years. The Zuni world included encounters with neighboring and more distant tribes. The Zuni world expanded with the Spanish entradas beginning in the 1500s. It expanded stil... Show Keywords:
2	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:
3	Title: Villagrá’s Cantos Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief introduction to Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s cantos describing the battle between the people of Acoma and the Spanish in 1598. Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá accompanied Juan de Oñate on the Spanish expedition into Nuevo Mexico in 1598. Luckily for history, Villagrá was a poet who recorded the details of the adventures in the rhyming verse of his day. Villagrá modeled his His... Show Keywords:
4	Title: The Origins of Pottery Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight When people started to make pottery and how it changed their societies. Small bands of indigenous peoples roamed the American Southwest between 10,000 BCE and 1000 CE. They moved around following game and gathering whatever plants were in season. They may have carried their belongings and foodstuffs in baskets. Peopl... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Acoma Pottery Design Motifs Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight The development of bread bowls and an explanation of common design motifs. Bread Bowls When the Spaniards introduced wheat and various fruits and vegetables to the Southwest, the Acomas and Lagunas began to need new sizes and shapes of vessels for food preparation and storage. One of these was the large dough bowl, up to 1... Show Keywords:
6	Title: Pérez de Villagrá’s Cantos Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight An introduction to Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's poetic history of Spanish battles with Pueblo people in New Mexico in the 1590s. Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá accompanied Juan de Oñate on the Spanish expedition into Nuevo Mexico in 1598. Luckily for history, Villagrá was a poet who recorded the details of the adventures in the rhyming verse of his day. Villagrá modeled his His... Show Keywords:
7	Title: As for the Natives Author(s): Diego de Vargas (Author) Diego de Vargas’ comment on the people of Acoma when he returned to New Mexico in 1692. “...As for the natives of the rock of Acoma, since they are a distance of twenty-four leagues from Isleta, and also those of the province of Zuni, they may be left as they are.” Show Keywords:
8	Title: Revised Memorial of 1634 Author(s): Alonso Benavides (Author) A description of Acoma by a prominent Spanish priest. To the west of the Rio del Norte, at a distance of thirty leagues, lies the Peñon of Acoma, very famous for the many lives that it has cost both the Spaniards and the Indians. This was not only because it was impregnable but also because of the cour... Show Keywords:
9	Title: Enchanted Mesa Source(s): Flaming Arrow’s People by an Acoma Indian Author(s): James Paytiamo (Author) James Paytiamo describes the Enchanted Mesa (Mesa Encantada). Further on, about eight miles, the Enchanted Mesa appears, and only those who have seen it in the morning lightwhen the pink and ivory of its sandstone sides towering above you many hundred feet blush in the rays of the rising suncan realize why ... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Traditional Apache Life Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight An overview of some important events and themes in the lives of Apaches. The Athapaskan peoples migrated south from Alaska and Canada and eventually split into seven distinct groups. By 1500, they occupied a vast expanse of territory in the American Southwest. The extreme environments they inhabited—mountains, deserts, ... Show Keywords:

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