1847 news of Aboriginal History of American & Col.
Doniphan’s Remarkable Expedition states the following summary of
facts:
Navajo Tribe: were war-like and had no towns.
Sumais Tribe: lived in a well-planned city and were the agriculture
type. They had two story homes made of
sun burnt bricks. They lived on the Rio
Piscow that connects to the Goyla River. In this city were 30 albino Indians that
give raise to the stories of the white aborigines living in the Rocky
Mountains.
Nation of Anahuac was
the Nahuatlacks who settled in Anahuse: they were from Azlan (Aslan
means lion), they had seven tribes called: Sochimillcas, Chalchese, Tapanecas, Colhuas,
Tlahuicas, Tlascalans, Mexicans or Aztecs.
Moqui Tribe: lived in an area watered by the Rio
Yaquesila, had a well-planned city.
Building constructed like the Casa Grande on the banks of the Gila
River. The language of the Moqui, the
Yabipais, who have long beards (white people have beards, Asians do not) &
those who inhabit the vicinity of the Rio Colorado is different than the
Mexican language.
Villages called Uturicet
& Sutaquisan Tribes: these Indians were clothed and tilled the soil
peacefully. They grew maize (corn),
cotton and gourds.
Kingdom of Cibola: In 1539 a Franciscan monk reported there was
one native white man of the town of Cibola.
He said some Indians on the coast reported more white men up the country. The Cibola people had an abundance of gold,
maize and excellent salt.
See below and in column
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The Casa
Grande reported on was actually in Coolidge, Arizona. At the time of this news article, Arizona had
not become a state yet. The Ancient Pueblo Peoples (Anasazi) from the Hohokam tribe
are now credited for building the Casa Grande.
The Hohokam tribe was very sophisticated tribe with water canals and so
forth.
