1940 magazine articles Native American Tribes, Indians, Southwest USA, Pueblo

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Selling are 2 magazine articles from 1940:
Native American Tribes
Southwest USA
Title: Indian Tribes of Pueblo Land
Author: Matthew W. Sterling
From the 1st page “This is the second in a series of authoritative articles dealing with "America's First Settlers, the Indians" (see NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE for November, 1937), illustrated with paintings which are products of careful study and extensive research. Others will appear in subsequent issues.”
Quoting the first page “In 1540, just 400 years ago, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led his band of gold-hungry explorers into the rocky country near the headwaters of the Little Colorado River in what is now western New Mexico.
Their imagination fired by the reports of Cabeza de Vaca and Fray Marcos de Niza, who had preceded them into the southern borders of Pueblo land, the Conquistadores were keyed to high anticipation.
Had not Fray Marcos himself viewed from a distance the very city the guides said they were now approaching, and stated that it appeared even more magnificent than the rumors had indicated?
Finally the great moment arrived. From a low hilltop across the shallow valley, Coronado and his fellow Spaniards viewed the first of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drab against a dull background of arid hills.
The Spaniards were not at all impressed. Says Pedro de Castaneda, chronicler of the expedition: "When they saw the first village, which was Cibola, such were the curses that some hurled at Friar Marcos that I pray God may protect him from them. It is a little, crowded village, looking as if it had been crumpled all up together. There are ranch houses in New Spain which make a better appearance at a distance."
The Conquistadores were in search of gold. They could not see or understand the riches of another sort which lay behind those adobe walls, the wealth of a people who had intimate acquaintance with Nature and with Mother Earth, a people to whom religion and poetry were as one. In the environment which looked so unproductive to the Spaniards, this race saw beauty and extracted it to build their arts and their ceremonies.
Wealth of a material sort these Indians neither had nor seemed to care about. In the turquoise which adorned the entrances of their houses they saw the depths of clear waters and the infinite space of the sky, and thus it represented pure beauty. That it might possess value of another sort had never occurred to them. Among their possessions was little else to attract the Spaniards.
This fundamental difference in viewpoint caused the Pueblos to draw aloof. The religion of the white man, built around totally different concepts, scarcely penetrated the Pueblo mind, and, though he temporarily accepted many forms of Christianity, his philosophy remained his own.
This, then, was the Pueblo of Hawikuh, predecessor to Zuni, in 1540. Wrote Castaneda: "It is a village of about 200 warriors, is three and four stories high, with the houses small and having only a few rooms. . . . The people of the whole district had collected here.
"When they refused to have peace on the terms the interpreters extended to them, but appeared defiant, the Santiago [war cry] was given, and they were at once put to flight. The Spaniards then attacked the village, which was taken with not a little difficulty, since they held the narrow and crooked entrance…”
7” x 10”; 23 pages, 16 B&W photos
Title: Red Men of the Southwest
Paintings by: W. Langdon Kihn
No text, just captions.
7” x 10”; 24 pages, 25 color paintings of the Native Americans of the Southwest USA
These are pages from an actual 1940 magazine. No reprints or copies.
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