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San Juan Pueblo Records
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Europeans first visited San Juan Pueblo in 1541 during Coronado's expedition into the Southwest. In 1598 Juan de Oñate, colonizer of New Mexico, established his headquarters at San Juan. In 1680 the inhabitants participated in the Great Pueblo Revolt when the New Mexico pueblos, led by Popé, an exiled San Juan Indian, rose up against the oppressive policies of the Spanish. After the recolonization of New Mexico by the Spanish in 1692, a mission complex was built at the pueblo. Today San Juan Pueblo consists of parallel blocks of one- and two-story adobe houses, rectangular ceremonial kivas, a stone chapel, and a 1912 stone church with Gothic Revival elements built on the site of the earlier mission church. [from the National Park Service]
The collection consists of photocopies of a Tewa-speaking tribe's documents from the archive of the governor of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, including leases, operating accounts, financial statements, contracts, and notices. There are also three open-reel audiotapes containing recordings of songs from the Hopi, San Juan, and Zuni peoples.
Gift of Antonio Garcia in 1972 (AM 20812).
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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
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- 2008
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Consists of three open-reel audiotapes containing recordings of songs from the Hopi, San Juan, and Zuni peoples. Artists on the recordings, based on the descriptions provided in a list that accompanies the tapes, include Kutka (chief of Walpi), Honauuh, Kakapti, Hopi Ceremonial Chanters, and Yaa-Nee-Wa (Hopi Indian Chanters) of the Hopi people; White Leaf Lightning-Koong-Wee of the San Juan people; and Zuni Ceremonial Chanters and Zuni Tribal Singers of the Zuni people.
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