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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers; the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Queres, though I am inclined to thebelief that he has, for I knew Mr, Gunn over twentyyears ago, when he first began his studies with theIndians. Among other stories that he presents is an interestingone which shows how the Indians regard • the gods asaiding them in their fights. The Sto-ro-ka and Ka-tsi-nawarred with each other; each using bows and arrows.But the strings of bows of the Sto-ro-ka were made ofthe fibers of the soap-weed, while those of the Ka-tsi-nawere of deer and antelope sinews. As the battle rageda terrific storm of rain and hail came upon the warriors.The bow-strings of the Ka-tsi-na were rendered limpand useless by the rain, while those of the Sto-ro-ka weremade more tense and efficient by the wetting, and conse-quently the Sto-ro-ka won the battle. A treaty was then made between the chiefs, and inorder to preserve it, the history of the fight and the con-ditions of the treaty were made in hieroglyphics on asmooth sandstone bluff which stands some eight or ten
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Photograph bv George Wharton James. A NEW MEXICO VOCALIST. Influence Upon Literature 369 miles west of the Jaralosa Spring and about twenty-fivemiles northwest of the Salt Lake of Zuni. If this story be true it is one of the most importantof contributions to our knowledge of American Indianpictographs. A vast amount of material on the Mexicans and In-dians of New Mexico has been published in the variouschurch papers of those who have been engaged in seekingto convert them from their native religious ideas andmodes of life. The major portion of this material thatI have seen is ill-digested, ill-informed, inchoate stuffthat was not worth the cost of setting up into type. Mostof it is misleading — possibly not intended to be so —but written by half ignorant, self-conceited religionistsof a fanatical turn of mind, who assumed that everythingcontrary to their mode of thought and life, and especiallyof religion, must necessarily be heathenish and to be con-demned. Though myself a Christ

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