. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. a point of attack for savage foes and rich plun-der when looted, were compelled to combine into a single largerpueblo, and as reliance was now placed on the size of the village andthe number of its inhabitants, these large villages were located in widevall(\vs or on fertile bottom lands, the people again returning to theiroriginal desire to live upon the lands they worked. Under modern conditions, when the depredations of the wild tribeshave been terminated by the interference of a higher and s
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. a point of attack for savage foes and rich plun-der when looted, were compelled to combine into a single largerpueblo, and as reliance was now placed on the size of the village andthe number of its inhabitants, these large villages were located in widevall(\vs or on fertile bottom lands, the people again returning to theiroriginal desire to live upon the lands they worked. Under modern conditions, when the depredations of the wild tribeshave been terminated by the interference of a higher and strongercivilization, the houses are reverting to the primitive type from whichthe great pueblos developed. But so late as ten or twelve years ago theHopi or Tusayan villages were under the old conditions and were sub-jected to periodical forays from their inmiediate neighbors, the warriors of the latter trilie ravaged the fields of the. Hopi, moreperhaps for the pleasure it afforded them and on account of the oldtraditions than from any real necessity for food as they destroyed more. enz< o zo I-r)m DC HCO a (3 z 5 o X CO < < CL MisDELEFF] USE OF FARMING SHELTERS 6-43 than they took away. If they found anyone in the they wouldbeat him. or perhaps kill him. merely for the amusement it seemed toafford. It was the Navaho method of sowing^ wild oats. There islittle doubt that the pressure which bore on the Pueblos for at leastsome centuries was of this nature, annoying rather than actually dan-gerous. No doubt there were also occasional invasions of the countryof more than usual maonitude, when from various causes the nomadictribes had cither an al)undancc or a scarcity of food, and, knowing thecharacter of the villages as storehouses of corn and other products, orimpelled by old grudges growing out of foimer forays, a whole tribemight take part in the incursion, and perhaps try themselves by anassault on some village of considerable size. But suc
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