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This conference follows a law suit filed in December 1978 by 92 Navajos and one Acoma Indian in an effort to halt uranium production indefinitely. These two groups represent contingents of growing Indian resistance to government and corporate exploitation of Indian land, resources and people...
...blanket-weavers, silversmiths. And to the east through New Mexico are scattered the adobe cities of the Pueblo peoples (best known settlements are the two "skyscrapers" at Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime...
Conventionalized art, of course, is apt to spring from a later stage of culture development than realistic art; but the Mayas continued some use of realistic sculpture up to the downfall of their civilization. Hence, the finding of these heads at Acoma does not imply that the ruins there are of great antiquity. In fact the evidence is all to the contrary...
...America, which is a few miles outside of St. Louis. The party will then proceed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they will spend a day at the important Jarvy Museum. From here they will go south to the large modern pueblo of Isleta, and the Laguna and the Acoma pueblos. The latter, built on a mesa 400 feet high, is in nearly the same condition that it was when Coronado found...
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