Identifier: amongpuebloindia00eick (find matches)
Title: Among the Pueblo Indians
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Eickemeyer, Carl Eickemeyer, Lilian Westcott, joint author
Subjects: Pueblo Indians
Publisher: New York, The Merriam company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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visited having a Mexican settlement,it being contrary to the wishes of the Government tohave the two races quartered together. But some-how or other the )\Iexican element has worked itsway into Cochiti, and in several instances the Indianand Mexican have intermarried, making the sepa-ration of the races impossible. Juan conducted us to the home of a friend—Juande Jesus Herrara—w^ho with his family, consisting ofan aged father and mother, a wife and three children,lived in the little adobe house that for the follow-ing few days was our home. One of the two roomson the ground floor was assigned to us for use as abedroom, kitchen and reception-room during ourstay. We spread the blankets on the floor in onecorner, and our bedroom was ready for use; lioht-ing a fire on the hearth and preparing our eveningmeal made the kitchen a reality, while entertaininghalf a dozen old bucks and squaws who had beendrawn to the spot out of curiosity gave the place quite the air of a reception-room. 60
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MRS. JUAN D£ JESUS HERRARA. San 5uan? 2)a\?. Our visitors scaled themselves on tlie llonr, watching lis prepare supper. Unfortunatelx- we eoukl notconverse with them, as they eoiiUI not s))eak luiglish,and Juan, our interpreter, liad gone out to see theplace and to make friends among the Indians. Itwas a strange siglit. The little cellar-like room hadonly the light of a single candle shining dindythrough it, and the smoke from cigarettes the buckswere enjoying made the forms appear almost ghostlyin their indistinctness. When our visitors had par-taken of crackers and coffee, their curiosity beingfully, and their appetites partially, satisfied, theyleft. We retired early, but the place was so noisy thatit was impossible to sleep. At sundown the churchbell had rung for about an hour, after which a shot-gun was fired in the plaza. More bell-ringing fol-lowed, and the gun was fired twice; still more bell-ringing, and the gun was fired a third time. Thisalternate ringing and firing, toget

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