Word: puebloed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold in 1886. The second Colorado was an armored cruiser of 13,680 tons, launched in 1903. She served with the Atlantic Fleet, and later became flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She had been named after tne State of Colorado, but in 1916 was re-named Pueblo (after Pueblo, Colo.). During the War she served as a cruiser and transport, and in 1921 was made receiving ship at New York. The present Colorado is named after the state, in accordance with the present practice of naming capital ships...
...Barbara, Cal., remains of a race with remarkable tooth development ? broad incisors like horses, and no cavities. 4) At Warehouse Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes...
...received a great deal of favorable discussion in Congress, for its purpose is in keeping with the usual attitude of that body whenever the interests of the Indian conflict with those of the white man: "To ascertain and settle land-claims of persons not Indian within the Pueblo lands, land-grants, and reservations" is the statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed cane--a gift received...