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Introduction: General history of the American race. The humanizing of a continent : the Americanizing of a race ; Time factors and evolution factors ; A new-world culture type ; Summing up -- Contemporary ancestry. The Pueblo Indians (General history : Catalogue of the towns) ; Wisdom of the past (Tradition, cosmography, mythology ; Folk tales ; Religious beliefs and ceremonies) ; Indian esthetics (Drama-dances ; Painting and the decorative arts ; Basket-making and the textile arts ; Pottery and the plastic arts) ; Summing up -- The realm of the pick and spade. Archaeological research in the Southwest (The archaeologist's quest ; Work of the veterans ; Moving the frontiers) ; Between the mountains and the plains (The mesas and valleys of the "Great River of the North" ; The Pajaritan culture ; By the waters of Posoge and its tributaries ; Frontier strongholds ; Sacramento and Guadalupe) ; The land of cliffs and canyons (The San Juan country ; The climax of cliff-dwelling life ; Master-builders of the desert) ; The desert provinces of the western slope (The Painted Desert; the Trees turned to Stone; the Titan of Canyons ; The fabled "Seven Cities of Cibola" ; The province of Tusayan) ; The irrigated provinces (Ancient canal builders ; The mud compounds of the Gila) ; Dwellers of the inland basin (An ancient art province ; The "Land of the Seven caves."
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