History of Arizona, Količina 7Filmer brothers electrotype Company, 1918 History of Arizona beginning with the Spanish explorations, connection with the Santa Fe Trail, transition of control from Mexico to United States, American-Indian relations, settlement, and statehood. |
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... hand . This was in the beginning , and ac- counts , perhaps , for the intense love the Apache held for his home in the west , for he believed that these ranges were provided for him and his posterity by Usen himself . Geronimo says that ...
... hand . This was in the beginning , and ac- counts , perhaps , for the intense love the Apache held for his home in the west , for he believed that these ranges were provided for him and his posterity by Usen himself . Geronimo says that ...
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... hand , two wands or swords of lathlike pro- portions , ornamented with snake - lightning in blue . " The medicine - men emitted a peculiar whist- ling noise and bent slowly to the right , then to the left , then frontward , then ...
... hand , two wands or swords of lathlike pro- portions , ornamented with snake - lightning in blue . " The medicine - men emitted a peculiar whist- ling noise and bent slowly to the right , then to the left , then frontward , then ...
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... hands , pressed it to his breast , and afterwards lifted it up to the sky , next to the earth , and lastly to the four cardinal points , all the time prancing , whistling , and snorting , the mother and her squaw friends adding to the ...
... hands , pressed it to his breast , and afterwards lifted it up to the sky , next to the earth , and lastly to the four cardinal points , all the time prancing , whistling , and snorting , the mother and her squaw friends adding to the ...
Stran 32
... hand . Number one's mask was spotted black and white and shaped in front like the snout of a mountain lion . His back was painted with large arrow - heads in brown and white , which recalled the protecting arrows tightly bound to the ...
... hand . Number one's mask was spotted black and white and shaped in front like the snout of a mountain lion . His back was painted with large arrow - heads in brown and white , which recalled the protecting arrows tightly bound to the ...
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... hand . The first advanced and bend- ing low his head murmured some words of un- known import with which the chief ... hands came behind his neck , after which they mumbled and muttered a jumble of sounds which I cannot reproduce , but ...
... hand . The first advanced and bend- ing low his head murmured some words of un- known import with which the chief ... hands came behind his neck , after which they mumbled and muttered a jumble of sounds which I cannot reproduce , but ...
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Ahsonnutli animals Apache Apache tribes Arizona arrows basket became body brother buckskin called camp canyon Casa Casa Grande causes cere ceremony Chemehuevi chief child Chiricahua clan Colorado Colorado Chiquito corn Coyote Coyoteros dancers deer disease dragon eagle Earth Doctor east estufa evil feathers fire four Gila Gila river girls gods hair hand Havasu Havasupai head Hokomata Hopi Indians killed legends lived magic Makai Maricopas meal medicine medicine-man mesa Mexico missions Mohave monsters Moquis Morning Green mother mountain chant mouth myths Navaho night Oraibi painted Papagos patient Pima prayers priests Pueblo race rain rattle rattlesnake rites river sacred rock San Xavier Shongopovi Si'atcokam sick sing snake dance snake men song spirit squaws sticks stone Teuhu tion Tochopa Tohouse Tonto tribe villages visited Wallapai Walpi woman women yellow Yuma Yuman Zuni
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Stran 52 - ... shine with less heat, but when it reached the meridian the heat became great and the people suffered much. They crawled everywhere to find shade. Then the voice of Darkness went four times around the world telling the men at the cardinal points to go on expanding the world. 'I want all this trouble stopped,' said Darkness; 'the people are suffering and all is burning; you must continue stretching.
Stran 213 - California to their present location in juxta position with the Pimos. Carson found them, so late as the year 1826, at the mouth of the Gila; and Dr. Anderson, who passed from Sonora to California in 1828, found them, as near as we could reckon from his notes, about the place we are now encamped in.
Stran 132 - Mother brought from her home in the west nine races of men, in the following forms : first, the deer race ; second, the sand race ; third, the water race ; fourth, the bear race ; fifth, the hare race ; sixth, the prairie-wolf race ; seventh, the rattlesnake race ; eighth, the tobacco-plant race ; ninth, the seed-grass race.
Stran 302 - The Maricopas are stated in one account to believe in a future state exactly similar to the life on earth, with all its social distinctions and wants, so that in order to enable the soul to assume its proper position among the spirits, all the property of the deceased, as well as a great part of that of his relatives, is offered up at the grave. But according to Bartlett they think the dead will return to their ancient home on the banks of the Colorado, and live on the sand hills. Here the different...
Stran 15 - ... they had a superstitious regard in a lesser degree. They made tizwin, an intoxicating drink, from corn, burying it until it sprouted, grinding it, and then allowing the mash diluted with water to ferment. The women carried heavy burdens on their backs, held by a strap passed over the forehead. Their basket work was impervious to water and ornamented with designs similar to those of the Pima, except that human figures frequently entered into the decorative motive. Baskets 2J ft.
Stran 52 - And the men blew and stretched, and after a time they saw the sun rise beautifully, and when the sun again reached the meridian it was only tropical. It was then just right, and as far as the eye could reach the earth was encircled first with the white dawn of day, then with the blue of early morning, and all things were perfect. And Ahsonnutli commanded the twelve men to go to the east, south, west, and north, to hold up the heavens [Yiyanitsinni, the holders up of the heavens], which office they...
Stran 252 - ... asked each in turn if she were guilty; on denial, let them go; finally asked cholla, and receiving no reply, bit it hard and it killed him. THE WOMAN AND COYOTE Coyote in cottonwood tree asked woman wading in river to give him some of her tortillas; she refused, but on being threatened went up to tree and told him to jump down, as the water was shallow; but she was standing on a stump; when he jumped he was drowned in the deep water.
Stran 233 - Pimas claim to have been created on the banks of the river. After residing there for some time a great flood came that destroyed the tribe, with the exception of one man, called Ci-ho. He was of small stature, and became the ancestor of the present Pimas. The tribe, beginning to grow in numbers, built the villages now in ruins and also spread to the north bank of the river. But there appeared a monstrous eagle, which, occasionally assuming the shape of an old woman, visited the pueblos and stole...
Stran 175 - ... back into the booth. The snakes sometimes run to the crowd, a ticklish affair for those jammed upon the very brink of the precipice. In case they run, the three official gatherers snatch them up without ado; but if they coil and show fight these antelope men tickle them with the snake whips until they uncoil and try to glide away, and then seize them with the rapidity of lightning. Frequently these gatherers have five or six snakes in their hands at once. The reptiles are as deadly as ever; not...
Stran 228 - Espuma), and he took with him a little dog and a coyote. *(This mountain range is called "of the foam " because at the end of it, which is cut off and steep like the corner of a bastion, there is seen high up near the top a white brow as of rock, which also continues along the range for a good distance, and the Indians say that this is the mark of the foam of the water, which rose to that height...