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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 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:
5	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:
6	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:
7	Title: Muster Roll Source(s): Majestic Journey: Coronado’s Inland Empire Author(s): Stewart L. Udall (Author) Before Coronado’s expedition into New Mexico, a muster roll was taken describing each traveler in detail. We know a lot about events that day at Compostela— exactly 192 years before George Washington was born in 1732—because Don Antonio had issued an order that each soldier would pass before an inspector and declare his possessions. Thus, diligent sc... Show Keywords:
8	Title: Expedition into New Mexico Made by Antonio de Espejo 1582-1583 as Revealed in the Journal of Diego Pérez de Luxan, a Member of the Party Author(s): Diego Pérez de Luxan (Author); George Hammond (Editor); Agapito Rey (Editor) A merchant from New Spain journeys north as head of a relief party to find two Franciscan monks. Here he describes what his party found at Zuni. We set out from this place on the fourteenth of the month and marched a league. We halted at the first pueblo of the province of Zuni which they called Malaque, in which we had a row of houses (for our use), and they gave us to eat of what they had u... Show Keywords:
9	Title: Laguna Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight People from neighboring Acoma and other pueblos established Laguna Pueblo in the last years of the 1600s. In 1699, Governor Cubero of Nuevo México formally named the pueblo San José de la Laguna (“Saint Joseph of the Lake”). The name refers to ... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Trading in the Americas Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief overview of trading in the Americas. For hundreds of years, indigenous people of the American Southwest, whether on the move or in permanent settlements, traded among themselves. Archeologists have found shells from the Pacific Ocean, parrot feathers from Mexico, and turquoise from dist... Show Keywords:

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