| | 1 | Author: | Pullen, Clarence | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pueblo of Acoma  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PERHAPS the most interesting people among the aborigines of
the American continent are the Pueblo (town) Indians of New Mexico
and Arizona, who have an ethnological affinity, if not a direct
kinship, with the succession of different migratory peoples,
beginning with the Toltecs and ending with the Aztecs, who, between
the seventh and the twelfth centuries, passed southward from the
unknown region, Aztlan, to colonize the Valley of Mexico and its
environing vales and plains. The substantial and permanent
character of the houses composing the pueblos of these tribes, each
tiny town being an independent community; the primitive
civilization that still prevails among their inhabitants, unchanged
in centuries; the adherence of the people to pastoral,
horticultural, and agricultural pursuits; their gentleness,
hospitality, industry, and thrift; their bravery in defence of home
and liberty; their chastity; and the isolation that each existing
pueblo has maintained in the midst of surrounding tribes and the
settlements of the whites — are all noteworthy characteristics; and
in their social relations within each city these Indians afford as
nearly as has ever been attained an example of rational and
successful communism. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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