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Native Americans of the Southwest
A good student's and traveler's introduction to the native peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.Well illustrated with photos, maps and drawings, the text starts in earliest times, goes through European contact and concludes with sections on separate tribes.
Tom Bahti was a graduate of the Anthropology Department of the University of New Mexico and was for many years a dealer and collector of Indian art in his Tucson shop.He and his son workedto improve the welfare of Indians through self-help programs.Mr. Bahti is also the author of Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts and Southwestern Indian Ceremonials.

Index of Indian Tribes
Acoma
Apache
Jicarilia
Mescalero
San Carolos
White Mountain
Chemehuevi
Cochiti
Colorado River Tribes
Cocopa
Mohave
Maricopa
Yuma
Havasupai
Hopi
Haualapai
Isleta
Jemez
Laguna
Nambe
Navajo
Pauite
Papago
Picuris
Pima
Pojoaque
San Felipe
San Ildefonso
San Juan
Sandia
Santa Ana
Santa Clara
Santo Domingo
Taos
Tesuque
Ute
Yavapai
Yaqui
Zia
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The largest and most prominent of the Pueblo peoples, the Zuni have inhabited what is present-day New Mexico and Arizona for more than 2,000 years. ... Read more

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Zuni Pueblo (Tribes of North America)
As a member of the Zuni Tribe and a library paraprofessional, I was very disappointed with this book.The historical information is correct, but as far as the information on religion and culture is concerned, some of the information is incorrect.Captions for the photographs/drawings used in the book could have been better as far as dates of the photographs and proper identification of the subjects. Several of the captions are incorrect. What I found most offensive was the use of a photograph of our very sacred Sha'la'ko ceremony. Overall this book was poorly written, an example from the Customs section on page 25, "Among these are the June Rain Dance, held in August,..." The editors needed to be more thorough in researching the topic. I don't think this book deserves a "star." I would not recommend this book. ... Read more

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good facts
It was a brief but a very informative book and at the same time was very entertaining to read. ... Read more

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This evenhanded history of the Jicarilla Apache tribe ofNew Mexico highlights their long history of cultural adaptation andchange-both to new environments and cultural traits. Concentrating onthe modern era, 1846-1970, Veronica Tiller, herself a JicarillaApache, tells of the tribes economic adaptations and relationswith the United States government.

Originally published in 1983, this revised edition updates the accountof the Jicarilla experience, documenting the significant economic,political, and cultural changes that have occurred as the tribe hasexercised ever greater autonomy in recent years. ... Read more

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Best History Yet of the Jicarilla Apache
This is the best history yet of the Jicarilla Apache, an interesting people who once were the scourge of the Santa Fe Trail. This was quite an accomplishment considering the tribe numbered less than 800 members.The book is easy to read and covers their history from earliest known times up to the present.The tribe's power was broken in the 1850s by Kit Carson.The next 30 years were occupied in finding the tribe a reservation as they wandered and were sent from place to place in search of some place they'd be allowed to stay.Shuffled off to wasteland the tribe has time and again turned up wealth first in timbers, then cattle, then oil, gas and uranium leases and almost as regularly up to the 1960s had the wealth stolen from them by unscroupulous Indian agents and government incompetence.The author is not always well documented presenting new evidence without a source and is clearly biased in favor of Ollero Jicarillas. ... Read more

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When I began, in the summer of 1882, to collect among the Passamaquoddy Indians at Campobello, New Brunswick, their traditions and folk-lore, I expected to find very little indeed. These Indians, few in number, surrounded by white people, and thoroughly converted to Roman Catholicism, promised but scanty remains of heathenism. What was my amazement, however, at discovering, day by day, that there existed among them, entirely by oral tradition, a far grander mythology than that which has been made known to us by either the Chippewa or Iroquois Hiawatha Legends, and that this was illustrated by an incredible number of tales. I soon ascertained that these were very ancient. The old people declared that they had heard from their progenitors that all of these stories were once sung; that they themselves remembered when many of them were poems. This was fully proved by discovering manifest traces of poetry in many, and finally by receiving a long Micmac tale which had been sung by an Indian. I found that all the relaters of this lore were positive as to the antiquity of the narratives, and distinguished accurately between what was or was not pre-Columbian. In fact, I came in time to the opinion that the original stock of all the Algonquin myths, and perhaps of many more, still existed, not far away in the West, but at our very doors; that is to say, in Maine and New Brunswick. It is at least certain, as the reader may convince himself, that these Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, legends give, with few exceptions, in full and coherently, many tales which have only reached us in a broken, imperfect form, from other sources.

This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; that is to say, of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Maine, and of the Micmacs of New Brunswick. All of this material was gathered directly from Indian narrators, the greater part by myself, the rest by a few friends; in fact, I can give the name of the aboriginal authority for every tale except one. As my chief object has been simply to collect and preserve valuable material, I have said little of the labors of such critical writers as Brinton, Hale, Trumbull, Powers, Morgan, Bancroft, and the many more who have so ably studied and set forth red Indian ethnology. If I have rarely ventured on their field, it is because I believe that when the Indian shall have passed away there will come far better ethnologists than I am, who will be much more obliged to me for collecting raw material than for cooking it.

Two or three subjects have, it is true, tempted me into occasional commenting. The manifest, I may say the undeniable, affinity between the myths and legends of the Northeastern Indians and those of the Eskimo could hardly be passed over, nor at the same time the identity of the latter and of the Shaman religion with those of the Finns, Laplanders, and Samoyedes. I believe that I have contributed material not devoid of value to those who are interested in the study of the relations of the aborigines of America with the Mongoloid races of the Old World. This is a subject which has been very little studied through the relations of these Wabanaki with the Eskimo.

A far more hazardous venture has been the indicating points of similarity between the myths or tales of the Algonquins and those of the Norsemen, as set forth in the Eddas, the Sagas, and popular tales of Scandinavia. When we, however, remember that the Eskimo once ranged as far south as Massachusetts, that they did not reach Greenland till the fourteenth century.

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Indian of the Southwest By MRS. WHITE MOUNTAIN SMITH Author of Hop Girl and I Mamed s Ranger Dlustrated by GEORGE L. COLLINS STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS THE BAKER TAYLOR COMPANY 55 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK ROBERT M. MC BRIDE COMPANY 4 WEST SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK MARTINUS NIJHOFF 9 LANGE VOORHOUT, THE HAGUE THE MARUZEN COMPANY TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, SENDAI COPYRIGHT 1933 BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS To my father William G. Brown Foreword ENG before - the invasion of the Spanish or the later intrusion of the Anglo-Saxon race into the Southwest, the Indians had a civilization, developed by them, together with an enduring religion which met their every need. Arts far beyond those we strive to teach them were theirs. They wove wild cotton into garments willows and grasses they con verted into baskets and sandals from, clay they formed their household vessels, and from native stones ornaments with which to decorate them selves, their priests, and their altars. Religion was so ingrained in the Indian of the Southwest that he gave it up only when life ended. He prayed con tinuously to the Powers for protection, for health, for rain, for every need. The Red Gods ruled at all times. Centuries have passed since the coming of the white race. Indian tribes, as tribes, in most places have vanished from their homes and hunting fields. Only in the Southwest has the Indian clung staunchly to the ways of his forefathers, keeping his ancient faiths, although compelled to accept, at least outwardly, strange gods. Deeply interested in the Indians of the South west, a party of four college girls spent an entire IV INDIANTRIBES summer traveling by automobile from Reservation to Reservation under the guidance of the writer. The pleasant experiences of these trips inspired this little book. Dances and ceremonies are here described ex actly as they occurred, and the guides explanations accompanying them are the result of more than a decade of friendly intercourse and observation. The party at all times met with courtesy and hos pitality. These homes of Americas own children were open to us, not as members of a conquering race, but as personal friends. Indians acknowledge no superiority in their conquerors. They have great dignity and self-respect, and the object of this book is to bring them to the reader as an interesting race worth knowing at close quarters. For actual dates and statistics used in this work the author has consulted Goddards Indians of the Southwest, Coolidges The Navajo, Parishs His tory of Arizona, and government documents such as Survey of Conditions of the Indians of the United States. For intimate facts about certain tribes she is indebted to L. H. McSparron, Canyon de Chelly trader, and long a friend of the Navajos and to Mrs. Nancy Graham Pinkley, trusted friend of the Pimas. DAMA MARGARET SMITH HOLBROOK, ARIZONA February 18, 1933 Table of Contents PAGE ACOMA THE SKY CITY .... 1 APACHE INDIANS 16 HAVASUPAIS AND HUALAPAIS . . 34 HOPI SNAKE DANCERS .... 39 NAVAJO INDIANS 56 RIOGRANDEPUEBLOS . . . . 80 SALT RIVER INDIANS .... 103 TAGS PUEBLO 112 ZUNI PUEBLO INDEX Acoma the Sky City Location Northern New Mexico, sixteen miles south of highway U. S. 66. Railway Santa Fe. Accommodations Hotel Acoma at Laguna, New Mexico. Population 600. Religion Mixture of Catholic and native. Arts Pottery making. Industries Farming and stock-raising. ROMANCE and history have combined to make the pueblo town of ancient Acoma most fascinating. Perched on its earthly Rock of Ages this city claims to be the oldest continuously occupied Indian village in the Southwest. However, Oraibi, Hopi town, disputes this. Acoma is not to be regarded lightly, as the Span iards learned to their chagrin... ... Read more

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Once upon a time the Rabbit dwelt in a lodge with no one but his grandmother. And it was his custom to go hunting very early in the morning. No matter how early in the morning he went, a person with very long feet had been along, leaving a trail. And he (the Rabbit), wished to know him.
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In many previous volumes of the series, the region beyond the Alleghenies has been recognized as an influence and a potentiality in American history. Thwaites, in his "France in America," shows how the French opened up the country and prepared the way; the Tennessee and Kentucky settlements are described in Howard's "Preliminaries of the Revolution"; Van Tyne's "American Revolution" goes into the earliest western governments; McLaughlin's "Confederation and Constitution" deals with the organization of the new communities by Congress; Bassett's "Federalist System" and Channing's "Jeffersonian System" show how the diplomacy and politics of the country were affected by the appearance of a new group of equal states

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No introduction to Mrs. Langloh Parker's book can be more than that superfluous 'bush' which, according to the proverb, good wine does not need. Our knowledge of the life, manners, and customary laws of many Australian tribes has, in recent years, been vastly increased by the admirable works of Mr. Howitt, and of Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. But Mrs. Parker treats of a tribe which, hitherto, has hardly been mentioned by anthropologists, and she has had unexampled opportunities of study. It is hardly possible for a scientific male observer to be intimately familiar with the women and children of a savage tribe. Mrs. Parker, on the other hand, has had, as regards the women and children of the Euahlayi, all the advantages of the squire's wife in a rural neighbourhood, supposing the squire's wife to be an intelligent and sympathetic lady, with a strong taste for the study of folklore and rustic custom. Among the Zulus, we know, it is the elder women who tell the popular tales, so carefully translated and edited by Bishop Colenso. Mrs. Parker has already published two volumes of Euahlayi tales, though I do not know that I have ever seen them cited, except by myself, in anthropological discussion. As they contain many beautiful and romantic touches, and references to the Euahlayi 'All Father,' or paternal 'super man,' Byamee, they may possibly have been regarded as dubious materials, dressed up for the European market. Mrs. Parker's new volume, I hope, will prove that she is a close scientific observer, who must be reckoned with by students. She has not scurried through the region occupied by her tribe, but has had them constantly under her eyes for a number of years.


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Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians. ... Read more

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The mighty giants of Utah and Colorado
This book is an account of the Ute Indians who were native to what is now the southwestern United States along the border who immigrated to the area around Utah and Colorado a millenia ago.The Utes are not a unified body but rather bands of different indians who spoke a similar language based on the Uto-Aztecan dialect.The story of this book touches on various events in history such as the Dominguez-Escalante expedition which was the first Spanish expedition into Colorado and Utah, the alliance of Utes with the Pueblo Indians during the revolt of 1680, the tribal conflicts between the Utes and the Comanches, Kiowa, Pawnee and Navajoes and the eventual decline with the arrival of the American anglos shortly after the events of the Mexican War of 1846-48.

The second part of the book goes into depth on the trials and tribulations as the white man approached.Once streching from from the Wasatch Range to the Front Range around present-day Denver, Ute territory was reduced over the years via treaties and depredations from white squatters to a small area of Utah and a strip along the Colorado-New Mexico state line.The book discusses various famous Utes such as Ouray and Chepeta who were instrumental in bringing their people into modern times.

The narrative is very typical of once proud indians in America who were reduced to receiving rations and dependent on other government handouts.Such treatment of people should serve as a lesson for those who think one's salvation comes from government.It is my hope that Native Americans can break free from the overbearing hand of government.Some people on the reservations think that the BIA stands for "bossing indians around."

Tended to be too boring
This is the 2nd book about Native American lives - the other being the Navajo - and this one is like the other one. BORING. I found that this was just a listing of all these obscure facts and minor happenings. I guess what I expect to read when I pick up a book on the Utes is what was their life like? What did they eat? How did they hunt? What was their life really like? This book just dragged on and on about so many little details that I wound up just skimming through half of it looking for something different and interesting. Can't someone write a good book about one of the tribes? I've heard of 1 or 2 others I am going to check out. Hopefully, they will be more exciting and educational.

Historical Account of Ute Culture
A well researched history of the Ute Indians and the areas they lived in. Virginia Simmons discusses various stereotypes made by those who first encountered the Utes and sets the record straight. The Utes were an important element in the regional history of Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. I found her descriptions of the adjustments the Utes had to make in various environments most interesting. If you wish to learn about nomadic Indian ways and culture this is an excellent book to read. Well written tribute to a tribe that struggled to survive the onslaught of the whiteman's culture. ... Read more

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The legendary white tribe that is said to wander in the mountains of Mindoro is but distantly related to the Great White Tribe now scattered through the greater part of Filipinia. Extending from the Babuyanes off Luzon, to Tawi-Tawi and Sibutu off the coast of Borneo, the Great White Tribe has made its presence felt throughout the archipelago.
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Poorly written, not informative
This book was a real disappointment.I do not recommend it to anyone interested in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.There are much better books on the subject available: The Pueblo Revolt : The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest, The Pueblo Revolt (Bison Book), and Po'pay: Leader of the First American Revolution.

Check out the above titles and skip this one.

One of the few temporary sucess for the Indians......
A very interesting book on a rare event where the Indians actually drove out their white conquerors from a long established colony. In 1680, the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico rose up in massive revolt against their Spanish overlords and managed for a short time, to regained their independence from colonial rule. This revolt came after nearly four generations of colonial rule where continued Spanish misrule generated this revolt.

The book proves to be well written and researched as the author explained how this revolt came to be. According to the author, much of for the revolt had to do with the following factors. Rejection of Christianity, economic dependency on the white, inter-racial marriages between whites and Indians and how that reflects on the fact that small numbers of Europeans were controlling larger numbers of Indians. In four generations, many of the Spanish colonialists have intermarried with the local Indians, blurring the racial lines. White intimidation fades as the conqerors and the conquered blended in.

The book proves to be a short read but it turned out to be very informative and rather an eye-opener. Spanish did managed to reconquered New Mexico once more in the 1690s, never again were the Indians sucessful in pushing out their European overlords which have been in place for generations. (It would be like if the 1862 Dakota Indian Revolt in Minnesota were successful!) The book come highly recommended for those interested in western colonial history. ... Read more

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This little book took its rise in the following experience that came to me many years ago when living with the Indians in their homes and pursuing my ethnological studies:
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