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  • He said his people are devastated by the news coming in from the front lines of the firefighting efforts — cultural sites destroyed, forest resources lost and plants and animals that the pueblo's 2,800 residents depend on gone.

    Crews battle N.M. fire as it pushes into canyon 2011

  • Some scholars also posit that Matanzas were Hispanic rituals dating back centuries, with the pig the center of the feast: since the Moorish rulers of the Hispanos' ancestors and the Jews they always despised couldn't eat pig, the feast was a great way for Spaniards and their descendents smoke out any marranos or moriscos out of the pueblo's ranks and into the bonfire.

    Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Matanzas Gustavo Arellano 2011

  • He said his people are devastated by the news coming in from the front lines of the firefighting efforts — cultural sites destroyed, forest resources lost and plants and animals that the pueblo's 2,800 residents depend on gone.

    Crews battle N.M. fire as it pushes into canyon 2011

  • For one thing, it's build in imitation of a church--- specifically San Esteban del Rey, the gigantic 17th Century Spanish mission church on the Acoma Reservation, built essentially by forced labor, with its bells paid for by enslaving a dozen or so of the pueblo's children to Mexico.

    The Persistence of Vision (New Mexico) Walter Jon Williams 2010

  • Anecdotal evidence suggests that a few curanderas still find it useful: during the 1970s an anthropologist studying popular medicine in the Oaxacan backcountry encountered a zapoteca who consulted this book almost daily when the pueblo's sick came to her for advice.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Poised in its multi-tiered campanario are the four bells that mark the pueblo's daily rhythms, pealing in familiar language to call the faithful: las llamadas -- three calls at 15 minutes intervals -- before Mass; jubilant repicadas for special festivities; mournful clamores that spread the news when someone in the village dies.

    Huellas ...en la Parroquia 2007

  • Poised in its multi-tiered campanario are the four bells that mark the pueblo's daily rhythms, pealing in familiar language to call the faithful: las llamadas -- three calls at 15 minutes intervals -- before Mass; jubilant repicadas for special festivities; mournful clamores that spread the news when someone in the village dies.

    Huellas ...en la Parroquia 2007

  • The legislation signed today also allows transfer of 5,000 acres of the ranch to the Santa Clara Pueblo to protect the headwaters of Santa Clara Creek, the pueblo's water supply.

    Fact Sheet On New Mexicos Irreplaceable Valles Caldera ITY National Archives 2000

  • Augustin, the pueblo's famous image saint, who they intended should preside over the velorio.

    Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales 1893

  • Pueblo, said the trading post has been an icon of the pueblo's history and the plan is to use it to showcase its culture and traditions through arts and crafts.

    Route 66 News 2010

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