Political and civil organization, 50;
relation to Federal government, 135;
republican in form, 177;
theocratic, 182, 185;
property relations, 182;
based on fetishism, 182-183;
officials and their duties, 185-189;
election of officers, and their installation, 189-190.
_See also_ Ceremonies, Education, Lincoln, United States, World War.
Pueblo Indians, Social organization, in Stone Age, at time of Spanish
Conquest, 277.
_See also_ Ácoma, Burial, Ceremonies, Education, Myths, etc.
Pueblo region, extent of, 148.
Pueblo Revolt of 1680, 106-117;
in 1696, 123-126.
_See also_ Ayeta.
Ramírez, Fray Juan, 28;
the church he built, 34-39, 103;
Apostle of Ácoma, 96;
brief sketch of, 99-102;
death and burial, 104.
Rituals (religious beliefs), purification, 41, 247;
foot-race, 55;
sand mosaics, 163;
myths ritualized, 212-215, 221-224;
increase of children, 221;
elaborate organization of, 225;
myth and religion, 226-227;
sun-worship, 227;
contemplative quality of, 227;
Nature, the Great Spirit, 228;
priesthoods, 229;
classification of, 247-248;
at Ácoma, 252-253, 255;
Smoking an essential element, 50, 274.
_See also_ Bird, Ceremonies, Estufa, Fetish, Katzímo, Kisi, Kiva,
Serpent, etc.
Rodríguez, Fray Agustin, expedition of, 62-64.
St. Stephen (San Estévan), church of, 34, 103, 104, 121;
feast-day of, 256.
_See also_ Ramírez, Vargas.
Salt, need of, a motive for migration, 148.
San Gabriel, headquarters of Oñate, 89.
San José, miracle-working painting of, 36, 130;
rivalry for, between Ácoma and Laguna, 128, 132.
San Juan de los Caballeros (Caypa), second permanent colony in the
United States, 73.
Sierra de San Mateo, mountain sacred to Keres people, 27.
San Pablo (New Mexico), 94.
San Pedro, patron saint of Ácoma church for short time, 37, 128.
Sanchez, Mrs. N. V., acknowledgment to, 196.
Sand painting (dry mosaics), 164.
Santa Fé, founded, 89.
Santa María, fate of, 63.
Santu Cult, male deity, 221.
_Saukin_, Ácoma word for friend, 255.
Sedentary Indians of New Mexico, 14 n.;
contrast between and the nomad or Plains Indians, 155-156.
Serpent cult, 231-233.
Shamans (Shamanism), 241-242, 248.
Shoshonean, racial relationships, 161.
Sía (Zía, Tsía), nearest of kin to Ácoma as tribe, 157, 158.
Si-pa-pu, place of emergence for all created beings, 40, 41, 46, 215;
“north of Taos,” 167 n., 234;
the path to heaven, 215.
Six “points of the compass,” 213-214;
separate color-symbols of, 214.
Smoking and ceremonials, 57, 274.
Songs, universal in Indian life and worship, 195, 250;
corn-grinding, 21;
of the corn-people, 195.
Spanish administration of the New World, 90-93.
Spier, Dr. Leslie, acknowledgment to, viii.
Swastika, 238.
Sweat-bath, 248.
Mt. Taylor (Spi-nat), 27 n. 1.
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