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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e; all that could be seen wasthe side of the large mountain, at the foot of whichthe pueblo lies. Here and there an esaque crossedthe road, carrying the clear water of Pueblo Riverinto the fields of the Mexicans on the outskirts of thetown. Leaving the willowy bower, there loomed upbefore us the two great pyramidal buildings of thepueblo, which, according to the historian, are the mostinteresting and extraordinary inhabited structures inAmerica. We went in search of a young Indian named Lo-renzo, of whom we had previously heard. He wasat home, and proved a most efficient interpreter andguide, as well as an agreeable companion. He wasa well-educated fellow, having been graduated fromCarlisle a year or two before. Since his return tothe pueblo, however, he has been looked down uponby the rest of the inhabitants, who consider hisknowledge a great disadvantage to them. He told usthat on the day of his arrival home, after an absenceof four years, a meeting had been called in the estufa 158
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Xlfc (n tbc ipueblo. to consider his case. The principal grievance wasthat he wore the clothes of a United vStatcs citizeninstead of the buckskins of his brethren. He hadbeen told he must chancre his manner of dressinir,and on his steady refusal to accede to their demandsthey sought to force him to do so. When the councilmeeting had adjourned a committee was sent to tellhim the decision arrived at; that he must eitherresign his American garments or be debarred fromtaking any part whatever in the affairs of the pueblo.He remained firm in his determination, and from thatday has had no part whatever in the affairs of thecommunity. There he lives, seemingly happy, m hislittle room with its modern appointments; bistablewell filled with books—his constant companions. The two great buildings of Taos pueblo form ir-regular pyramids, being in some parts seven storieshigh, each tier or story covering a smaller area thanthe one below, to allow entrance from the roof. Ineach building over a hun

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