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Show him as he was, so again." 119 The Presbyterian missionary assigned to the Zuni Reservation also reported the 1880 pilgrimage. Taylor F. Ealy reported that Zunis had "just been off sixty miles to the sacred lake," and that part of their purpose was to bring rain to the area. 120 During the same pilgrimage (1880) came the only recorded instance of any serious effort by Anglos to restrict the Zunis in their ancient religious activities along the sacred trail. A local character by the name of Dan Dubois had attempted to make a homestead along the trail and had built a fence that passed across the Zunis' ceremonial path. Anthropologist/Archaeologist Frederick Webb Hodge reportedt The Zuni Indians conduct periodically a ceremony that takes them to a sacred lake. Among the members of the pilgrimage is Shulawitsi, the Little Fire God, one of whose functions, during the return journey to Zuni, is to set afire anything that chanced to be in the way, not excepting ranch fences and the like. It happened that Dan's fence was along the trail of the Little Fire God, consequently it suffered . . . Dubois filed a formal (if nearly illiterate) complaint with the authorities, demanding satisfaction for the damaged fence and claiming the Zunis had threatened him after 119. Cushing, 1967, og. cit., p. 49. 120. Bender, Norman J. Missionaries, Outlaws, and Indianst Taylor F. Ealy at Lincoln and Zuni, 1878-1881, University of New Mexico Press; Albuquerque; 1984; pp. 113-114. 121. Hodge, F. W. "Old Dan Dubois," Los Angeles Westerners' "Brand Book," Los Angeles Corral of Westerners, Los Angeles, 1950. - 80 - |
