The Pueblo Revolt
The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
Prologue
At dawn, frost silvered the yellow cottonwood leaves strewn in the dirt in front of the visitor center. The men had built a bonfire to warm their morning's play. A fusillade of sharp reports -- stone knocking upon stone -- rang echoless in the cold, clear air. I sat just outside the circle of men, witnessing a cultural paradox whose roots stretched more than five centuries into the past.
It was October 1994. Near the end of three years of research for a book about those prehistoric geniuses of the Southwest, the Anasazi, I had come to Jemez Pueblo in northern New Mexico. Nine of the ten men laboring before my eyes were from Jemez and its neighbor pueblo, Zia, ten miles to the south. As Puebloans, they were direct descendants of t ... read full excerpt from The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest ebook
