PUEBLOS GODS & SPANIARDS [SOLD]

PUEBLOS GODS & SPANIARDS

By John Upton Terrell

The Dial Press, New York 1973

First Edition, first printing, hardback with slipcover. 358 pages. Excellent condition. Slipcover has tear in upper spine area

From the Slipcover

“Spanish explorers, seeking the fabled city of Cibola, heard rumors of Indians living in multi-storied dwellings and traveled north from Mexico in search of gold and jewels.  Instead they found labyrinthine adobe structures (which they called pueblos, or towns—the term was eventually expanded to mean the people who dwelt in these places) and Indians who cultivated crops rather than foraging for food.  But they found little wealth.

“No tribe suffered for a longer period of time from intrusions by white military, civil and religious forces than the Pueblos.  Soldiers slaughtered them, government officials stole their resources and enslaved them.  If priests did not attack them with guns, they employed cruel methods, both mental and physical, to break their resistance to Christianity and to obliterate their ancient rituals.

“This is the first book on the Pueblo Indians, intended for the general reader, and in it the author recreates the tribes as they existed when first encountered by explorers, and tells the story of their earliest conquerors, the Spanish.

CONTENTS

One: The Vaults of Time

Two: New Trails: Exploiters and Martyrs

Three: Colonization: The Sword and the Cross

Four: The Struggle for Supremacy: State Versus Church

Five: Revolt: The Summer of Terror and Death

Six: Reconquest: The End of an Age