The Conclusions, Therefore, Are Obvious And Inevitable.
The Cliff-Dwellers Were None Other Than The Ancestors Of The Pueblo People,
A Little Less Advanced, Doubtless, In The March Of Civilization, Yet
Already Far Progressed From The Rude Civilization Of The Nomad.
They were
driven to occupy the inaccessible cliffs by the constant attacks of the
warlike nomads.
Sedentary and Home-loving Indians. Thus the cliff dwellings become
interesting memorials of the great fight for existence, where one race has
striven to the very death with other races, and the weaker have either
given way or been swept out of existence. The picture is easy to draw. The
country was peopled with these sedentary and home-loving Indians. They had
come largely from the south, had settled down, had built their humble
villages, tilled their fields and cultivated their crops. The women made
baskets and pottery, and the men hunted game, while the women prepared it
for food, and gathered seeds, nuts and roots to eke out their not
overextensive dietary. Young men and women grew up, felt the dawnings of
love and the final awakenings of the great passion, and then married,
settled down in a house the community helped them to build, and began to
work a piece of land selected for them, or at least approved, by the town
council. For, even in those early days, there is every evidence that these
people had a definite and distinct form of democratic government, to the
elected officials of which they yielded an almost perfect reverence and
obedience.
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