INDIANS OF THE PUEBLOS [SOLD]

INDIANS OF THE PUEBLOS by Therese O. Deming and Edwin W. Deming

Publisher: Laidlaw Brothers, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Dallas

First Edition, hard cover, 1936, 224 pages

This copy formerly property of The Board of Education, Oklahoma City, OK

Condition: text in very good condition, stamping on front and back pages and title page

INTRODUCTION

“This book is the fourth in the Indian Life Series by the Demings.  It is a story of Indian life in a pueblo, or village, in New Mexico.  The authors lived among these Red People for years and had a part in each of the events described.  These events occurred many years ago before the Pueblo Indians had greatly changed their ways.

“Mr. Deming was then a young artist.  He wished to paint pictures that would show the manners and customs of the old-time Indians.  Every picture in this book was painted by Mr. Deming from sketches made while he lived in a pueblo.  Boys and girls who visit museums will sometimes find larger pictures that Mr. Deming has made of some of these scenes.

“Mrs. Deming, too, became familiar with the lives of the Pueblo Indian people, who were her friends and neighbors.  The Indians taught her the meanings of the many feasts and dances that occupied a large part of their time.  She also learned their ways of expressing thoughts.  In a diary, she kept notes of what she learned about Indian life.  With the aid of these notes she has here described what she saw and heard.

“Young readers of this book will sometime study the history of our country.  They will then learn that the Spaniards were the first white men to travel and to live in the Southwest.  These men used words from their own language to name the things that they saw.  To them, a village such as those in which these Indians lived was a pueblo.  The square, or court, about which the Pueblo Indians built their homes was a plaza.  The little animal that is elsewhere called a donkey was to the Spaniards a burro.  The authors have used these and other significant Spanish names that are still used in the Southwest.”

CONTENTS

The Twin Warriors Lead the Way

The Sleepy Rain Makers

In the Kiva

The Prayers to the Rain Makers

The Rain Makers’ Visit

A Trip to the Woodlands

Boys with the Hearts of Men

Herding the Burros

The Bridge of the Koshares

The Wilderness Trail

The Land of the Long-Ago People

The Wilderness People

A Day with Singing Leaves

Making Pottery

The Wheat Harvest

Gathering the Sacred Corn

Children’s Day at the Pueblo

The Desert Trail

The Harvest Feast

The Night Trail

The Hunt

Preparing for the Feast

The Buffalo Dance