Abstract
ACOMA, a pueblo stronghold of the Keres people of New Mexico, has a double claim on the interest of the student. Its inhabitants, now about five hundred in number, are the least known, the most reticent, and the most inscrutable, of the Indians of the pueblo area. Their history as told in the stories of the conquistadors, the poems of Villagrá, and later records, embodies examples of valour and endurance as striking as any in the history of the Spanish conquest of America. Mrs. Sedgwick has a thrilling story to tell—from the entry of the Spaniards into New Mexico in 1539 and the expedition under Coronado in 1540, when they first saw Acoma, until the final crushing of revolt among the inhabitants of that pueblo in 1699. To the Indians it seemed well-nigh impregnable, as indeed it appears to—day, and its capture was a remarkable feat of arms.
Acoma, the Sky City: a Study in Pueblo-Indian History and Civilization.
By Mrs. William T. Sedgwick. Pp. xiii + 314 + 33 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1926.) 18s. 6d. net.
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Acoma, the Sky City: a Study in Pueblo-Indian History and Civilization . Nature 119, 44 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119044b0
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