verde an indian civilization lived in our land for centuries before columbus was born and here like a pearl of history and its recently opened shell the city stands today wondrous this was the first great milestone of the master builders who today people appoint blows of new mexico this is their high point of heritage drying up rivers they left their suddenly constructed homes buried their dead and abandoned the god who had abandoned them they are still a peaceful people and particularly they cling to the old ways without fierce determination believing that if their traditions die their strength and dignity will die with earth has an insatiable thirst but it is satisfied by water drawn from the tributaries of the r thus do their crops thrive and the people by their skill and labor manage to live without surrendering to the civilization that surrounds  all your girls for water bears paintings come to life singularly colorful and endowed with a graceful carriage bunny called in the white man's world but in the past twenty five years something else happened to revolutionise life and journey the dr has achieved a worldwide renowned as makers of jewellery and in nearly every house in the playbook that people are at work with modern equipment  utilizing indigenous play below design this covered wagon is unique among the traditional pieces all turquoise and silver it contains all go lies between the villages of the rio grande valley and sunni and it's the site of one of the oldest and finest catholic churches on the continent this point below is known to history and its own inhabitants as the sky city and other natural fortress it's the gibraltar of the southwest located on a massive rock about a mile long and three hundred fifty seven feet high could conquer the sky city than many an artist or poet has looked down into this recess and found in it a reservoir of inspiration than here under an enlightened program offered by the united states office of indian affairs they are taught how to put their heritage to work thought to carry the art of jewelry making further than it has traveled in a thousand years tremendous strides are being made in the field of fine arts excellent instruction in this case by a well established indian artist a first rate for a blow school of painting has developed of the educational system has come a new generation thoroughly equipped to meet the challenge of a changing world is good taste as gone beyond painting in the way of friends for his race the development of a new and progressive generation and even greater influence than the schools was world war two zuni that many other point close veterans have gone to school under the g i bill of rights the young man exposed for four years to other parts of the nation the world by studying modern methods of farming and living there is a conviction that the promise of the pueblo people lies not only in a reverence for the past but in an ability to adapt oneself to meet the future on its own term anomaly quiet little town the greatest remaining primitive spectacle in america it's the indians who make it what it is the first americans celebrating a birthday party they come to have fun to mingle with other tribes to display their costumes and talents to labor for the white man the glory of their pas are joined by other tribes top eagle dancers are rich prize if you can hit the right exposure but who knows what to focus on first tribes the indian heart beating is one exhibiting freely the treasures of their tradition