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The Hopi community of Awat'ovi existed peacefully on Arizona's Antelope Mesa for generations. Then one bleak morning in the fall of 1700 raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat'ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. Why did kinsmen target it for destruction? Drawing on oral traditions, archival accounts, and extensive archaeological research, Brooks unravels the story and its significance, and argues that a perfect storm of internal and external crises revitalized an ancient cycle of ritual bloodshed and purification.
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Religion, Hopi Indians, Massacres, Excavations (Archaeology), Violence, Antiquities, History, Indians of north america, southwest, new, Indians of north america, antiquities, Excavations (archaeology), north america, Indians of north america, historyPlaces
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Mesa of sorrows: a history of the Awat'ovi massacre
2016
in English
- First edition.
0393061256 9780393061253
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Table of Contents
November 1700: The gate unguarded
The sorcerer's kiva
The singing house
Wolves from the east
At play in the fields of the Lord
You will find me poor, while you return in the grandeur of plenty
Across this deep and troubled land
Liminal men, liminal souls
At the moment of the yellow dawn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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