American Indians - first families of the Southwest (1920) (14796084003)

Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
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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en are spoken of as belonging to the mother,and frequently remain with her in case the parents separate. Divorce is easyamong them and they are monogamists. While the women do the houseworkand some of the lighter farm labor, the men aid in the heavier domestic duties,gather the fuel, make moccasins for the women, weave blankets and in fact do thesewing, knitting and embroidering for the family. With almost four centuries of contact with white civilization the habits ofthe Pueblo have not materially changed. When history found him, in 1540, hedwelt in houses like his own today, tilled his farms by irrigation then as now, madebaskets and excellent semi-glazed pottery. He dressed in garments of cotton andbuckskin and was adept in tanning, weaving and spinning. As a race the Pueblo is unique among the peoples of the world, enjoying tworeligions, two sets of implements as far apart as the Stone Age and the locomotive,two sets of laws, two languages and two names. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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OLLA CARRIERS RETURNING FROM WELLACOMA. NEW MEXICO Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Where the Roses Grow Near the Water The old city of Santa Fe in New Mexico is the center of a number of ancientpueblos. All of them were named for the saints and each settlement still honors thepatron from whom it took its name. These ceremonies are of a Christian character,but there is a strong flavor of the weird symbolism that was with the tribes beforethe Spaniards came. While no one can question the beauty and fitrless of the mission names, thereis at least one instance where it is to be regretted that the old Indian appellationdid not survive. Santa Clara, built on a terrace of the Rio Grande, twenty-four miles from Santa Fe, in the ancient times was known as the Village Wherethe Roses Grow Near the Water, a name that gives a somewhat surprising indi-cation of the poetry hidden in the Indian. Its population is under 300. At onetime witchcraft had a hold so strong on these people that they almost exterm