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Beneath the cornfields of an Indian pueblo, diligent diggers last week worked to uncover a half-forgotten chapter of U.S. history. Led by Professor Florence Ellis of the University of New Mexico, 60 student archaeologists are bringing to light the long lost site of San Gabriel de Yunque, first capital of New Mexico. It was founded in 1598-ten years before the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Va., and 22 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth...
...head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan and a party of adventurers pressed up the Rio Grande. In July 1598 they reached two Indian pueblos, Yuque and Yunque, on opposite sides of the river. They chased the Indians out of Yuque and moved in, renaming the place San Juan de los Caballeros (St. John of the Gentlemen) and declaring it the capital of the new colony. A short time later, they shifted to the other...
...thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled, and when the Indians of San Juan pueblo planted crops where once stood adobe walls, the sites were forgotten...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Author Oliver La Farge is interviewed by John Ciardi on the struggle of the Pueblo Indians to retain their ethnic identity. Show includes a tour of the famed Taos pueblo in New Mexico...
...became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine man Popé led an uprising against the Spanish (and the church) in the Southwest in 1680, reconquered the New Mexico territory and held it for twelve years. The savage Ottawa chief Pontiac successfully took all but two British posts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; the Shawnees...