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Multi-periodSite Name: Acoma Pueblo
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 27.394 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 34.896000N  Longitude: 107.581W
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Ancient Village or Settlement in New Mexico. Acoma Pueblo, Cibola County, New Mexico. Ancient village, still occupied.

Note: New Mexico tribe opens a new gateway to its storied pueblo, see comment.
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New Mexico tribe opens a new gateway to its storied pueblo by Anonymous on Tuesday, 05 September 2006
By Mary Ellen Botter, The Dallas Morning News

ACOMA PUEBLO, N.M. - A new landmark lies at the junction of an ancient culture and modern tourism.

Beneath the mesa that Acoma Indians have called home for an estimated 1,000 years, the just-opened Sky City Cultural Center and Haak'u Museum provides a fresh gateway to Acoma Pueblo. The ridge-top redoubt has astonished visitors since Spanish explorers in 1540 looked up and declared it "the strongest position in the land."

At the same time, the $15 million, 40,000-square-foot facility is where Acomas can come to recapture ancestral traditions and skills before they're lost to disuse.

"This is an institution for learning," says Brian Vallo, director. It's intended to serve tribal members and also to "provide opportunities for visitors so they do understand" Acomas and their culture, he says.

At the center, which opened May 27 and replaces a building that burned in 2000, visitors can watch an orientation film, see art of Acoma and other pueblos, view rare artifacts, explore a well-stocked shop, meet and buy from potters, and eat Acoma foods, including fry bread, corn, beans and squash.

"I want them to feel like they're at home, being served food like their mama would serve," says Yaak'a Cafe chef Lawrence "Jay" Riley.

The cultural center also is where tours of the pueblo nicknamed "Sky City" begin.

Both the center and pueblo above wear the colors of the northwestern New Mexico desert that surrounds them. In the square profile and uncluttered design, the center "represents and traces the evolution of pueblo architecture," Vallo says.

Every detail, intensively weighed by tribal members before approval, has meaning. So personal is the center that handprints were pressed into the exterior walls before they dried, the signatures of the project's guides and builders.

Inside, a lobby sitting area is bathed in honey-colored light filtering through sheets of mica, the translucent mineral used in pueblo windows before glass was introduced. Additional reflections of Acoma homes and motifs are found in stacked-stone walls, rough-log "viga" ceilings, lime-whitened corridors, T-shaped portals, hand-carved doors and a long window etched with the lightning bolts depicted on some Acoma pottery. Chimney pots atop the building are replicas of earthenware on the mesa.

In two classrooms, elders teach young Acomas traditional dressmaking, leatherworking, the Keresan language and cooking.

"We're losing almost everything," says Thomas Lucero, a retired civil servant teaching boys to make moccasins and pouches. "We're losing traditional stuff, and they're trying to bring it back."

Behind the center is a portico where Acoma (say AH-koo-mah) potters display and sell their work. Here, as on the mesa, it's an opportunity to buy from the artists and learn about the craft. Traditional Acoma pottery, completely handmade and known for its thin walls and dramatic decoration, is prized by collectors.

"Pottery is what Acoma is, what Acoma is made for," says award-winning potter Rebecca Lucario, whose workshop is across a narrow road from the center. As she mixes clay pigments on a flat stone, she recalls, "This was the job of our grandparents from sunup to sundown."

Pottery by four venerated Acoma artists is displayed in "The Matriarchs" exhibit at the center. The dozens of works will begin a world tour next year.

A second gallery showcases fragile old textiles in "Cotton Girls."

Acomas say theirs is a city 10 centuries old, the longest continuously occupied community in North America. Archaeologists place Acoma's settlement sometime before 1200 A.D. What's certain is that the Acomas occupy the original land of their ancestors, unlike many Indian groups that were removed to reservations distant from their homelands.

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