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Archaeological Institute of America PAPERS OF THE School of American Archaeology Number Thirteen Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos I. Bibliographic Introduction BY ADOLPH F. BANDELIER 1910 |
Seventeen years have elapsed since I was in the territory inwhich the events in the early history of the Rio GrandePueblos transpired, and twenty-nine years since I first enteredthe field of research among those Pueblos under the auspices of theArchæological Institute of America. I am now called upon by theInstitute to do for the Indians of the Rio Grande villages what Idid nearly two decades ago for the Zuñi tribe, namely, to recordtheir documentary history.
I shall follow the method employed by me in the case of thedocumentary history of Zuñi, by giving the events with strict adherenceto documentary sources, so far as may be possible, and shallemploy the correlated information of other branches only whenabsolutely indispensable to the elucidation of the documentarymaterial.
The geographical features of the region to be treated are toowell known to require mention