Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building and testing of the first atom bomb is one of the century's great stories. So it takes a bit of nerve to turn this modern Promethean tale into a popular thriller, especially if the hero is a Pueblo Indian Army sergeant who is also a prizefighter, jazz pianist and catnip to the ladies...
Martin Cruz Smith is no stranger to risky fusions. He is the author of Gorky Park, a story of Communists and furriers. Scientists and Indians seem just as incongruous, even though the two groups actually did share the stage at a critical moment in history. Smith, who is half Pueblo Indian, has a good grip on the Southwest, a region that drew many artists and intellectuals decades before J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested Los Alamos, N. Mex., as an ideal research and engineering site for the Manhattan Project. Ground zero on July 16, 1945, was more than 150 miles south...
...Jackie Gutierrez, 8, of the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico, bilingual learning has meant sitting in a twice-a-week class listening and responding to Leon Baca, a teacher of the ancient Tewa language. During a recent session, Baca grunted, "Nyaemangeri!" The students replied, "Left side!" "Haa (yes)," intoned Baca; then "Ko'ringeri!" The children shouted, "Right side!" Asked later what the enrichment class was all about, Jackie replied, "We're learning to speak Indian...
This sense of proportion is the dominant theme in Coles' manuscript, a rambling and anecdotal account of Coles' interviews, through which he homes in on his belief that, as with many other issues, class separates children on the nuclear question. Coles talks of his discussions with poor Pueblo children in New Mexico, who evince more skepticism for the "Anglo World" than interest in nuclear weapons. He talks of Black children he knows in Roxbury, who mention not nightmares of nuclear blasts, but of "dope and coke and smack and needles and syringes and booze, bottles and bottles of booze...
...making no public comment; in fact, its editor, Larry Sanders, actually said, "No comment." The paper's lawyers have collected over 100 photographs of the Santo Domingo, the preponderance of them from the Museum of New Mexico, in an attempt to show that picture taking at the pueblo is nothing new and that the suit should be dismissed. Borg argues that the tribe has authorized photographs on only two occasions and that the rest were taken back in the days when "the Pueblo were fearful of Indian agents; they acquiesced to the Bureau of Indian Affairs." The dollar figure...