The herald., 1895-01-01

languages of those peoples respectively,
and OF thar histories so Jar as they can
be learned from ancient monuments or
gathered from current folk lore. leave nn
doubt ct alI of the absolute separation
of the Aztec or Maya Civilization oil
Mexico from that of the Pueblos OF the
southwestern territories of the United
States.
The Pueblos are believed to be an otf'
shoot of the Shoshones. tribe oil In
dians inhabiting q section OF country.
embracing what is now the territory of
Utah. The members OF one subdivision
of the Shoshonss are called Digger In
dians or clay-eaters, and arc commonly
regarded 40 coming little nearer than
any other human beings to fulfilling all
the requirements OF the long-sought
link which Mr.. Darwin missed; and the
Digger Indian is the direct progenitor OF
tho towns people. So tho Pueblo. 80 far
from being the steadily degonerating
descendant of y superior race. is one
who, though mis- parents were the most
ignorant and most debased OF human
kind, yet made his hard fight for ad-
vancement with such more than savage
courage and such more than civilized
persistence as to win for himself place.
in point OF civilization, very far in ad-
vance of that held by any other tribe OF
North American Indians.
To him who had fed upon roots, the
cultivation of maize came not unnat-
urally; to her who had found ehelter in
natural caves, the building of houses OF
earth and stones readily suggested itself.
The mon planted corn and the women
k.a.1 "a N, N
about destroyed the houses and de-
vasiated the fields, killing the men and
making slaves of the women. And 90 it
came about that the Pueblo Indians
were the first Americans to express q
desire to be ''left alone" They "csme
down out of the north' aG their folk tales
cay, into the very hottest cornsr of all
the earth. To wall out black savRgery
was all they saked, and little more
than thev obtained. But the men
planted their com, and right man.ully
they defended their fields, drawing
stout bows of willow and striking
hard with axes of flint at aavRges who
deemed it easier to live by robbing Pu-
cblo agriculturista than by elaying the
beaste of the chase. Right womanlike
the Pueblo wives labored. but not upon
sgats pillars cut with tools of myeteri~
GUS efficiency, nor ct the lifting OF great
stones by now unknown mechanism.
With black head barred to the burning
Gun, with broad back bent under her
load of mud, each Pueblo woman toiled
to build the yard-thick walla OF stones
and mud which should be to her and to
tho man who planted corn q place oi
sure refuge from eavages who lived by
rapine, having no fixed abiding place.
Two etories-five atorles--seven storleH
high they sresred those walls, with vast
labor carrying mud and stones, and with
infinite patience welding their inefect-
i've hasohets of flint in the preparation
OF roof timbers. The Spanish adven-
turer, drunk with the desire OF gold and
mindful OF the squalid huts he had eeen
heretofore, made no doubt of his ar
rival at that place for which he sought
where the people were to be innocent
and loving and possessed OF gold and
Jewels in uncounted heaps. The fact
! the buildings were. perchsd upon steer
and rugged hills and upon rocky
projections utterly inaccessible with
out the use OF ladders only con
firmed the gold.mad conquistador in
his belief that his long search, 60 full o
| strange dangers and of indeecrlbablt
suffering, had come to a successful end
To him nothing but gold needed protec
| ton; these people sought protection al
| infinite inconvenience and great per
aonal danger to themselves, and there.
fore. he argued, they must poesese gold
So believing, he went back TO Spain anc
told tales which excited the avariee o
! all Europe, and which TO this day art
| still given some cradenca; for wher
later explorers sought, but faile(
to find, the rich cities OF Ci'
bola, it was said that those
cities and their inhabitant Il
F.! had been destroyed, and that the saw
ages were their degenerate descendants
It 10 good to give honor whore honor
is due. The Pueblo Indians of Corona.
doe time were not falling from higf
! estate, but were climbing, sturdily anC
steadily, higher above the plane Of theil
savage ancestors. They did not erect
palacse, bus they did build housso hav
ing q Thousand little rooms, wherein in
dustrioua communities found protection
against prowIing savages and the almos
informal climate of the Tonic basin
| These and these only were the houses o
| the Seven Cities of Cibola; these still
are the beat monuments OF 8 civilization
UNIQUE among the nations of the earth
and furtijer advanced than the condition
OF any other North American people
And though this light of that civilization
seemed TO begin to go out in the glare o
Aryan culture, though Anglo-Saxon in
stitutions seemed about to annihilat
| the Indian and deatroy the very memory
of his customs, the little light agaii
burne strongly, and in the glow OF th
estufa fire the Pueblo Indian seem
still to seek his best development alon!
the lines of purely American cultus.