Word: jemez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegas, Nev., which advertises "Fun in the Sun" for tourists, a tribe of New Mexican Jemez Indians put on a rain dance. Next day the rains came...
What they saw, at the second annual exhibit of American Indian painting, were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
Class IV. In Jemez Pueblo, N. Mex., Indian medicine freshmen claimed exemption from the draft as theological students...