Excerpt from The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Vol. 18: January-November, 1896
In giving the traditionary history of the pueblos we shall include only those tribes which had their seats on the Great Plateau, and who still occupy those peculiar habitations to which the expressive name of "Pueblo" has been given, but must exclude those tribes who formerly had their homes among the cliffs, or the Cliff dwellers, so-called. These are supposed to have belonged to the same stock as the Pueblos, and to have followed the same mode of life; but they were driven from their homes so long ago that they can not be identified, and no record of their past can be secured. It is strange that with so many monuments scattered over the Great Plateau of the interior that the materials for history should be so meagre; but this is in accord with the condition of society. The people may have reached a high degree of art and architecture, and left structures behind them which are very suggestive, but having bad no letters or fixed method of making a record of events, their history has perished. It is only among the few survivors that we can look for those traditions which will explain the structures or furnish a clew to the customs of the past. The traditions which we shall consider will be those which have been preserved among the Tusayans. These are important, for they not only cover the history of this people, but they suggest many things in reference to the tribes which formerly adjoined them. There is a great similarity between their traditions. They embrace about the same events. They all begin with the Story of Creation, and describe the various migrations, and speak of the changes which occurred and the reason for the changes. They contain allusions to the attacks of wild tribes and the conflicts which occurred among their own tribes.
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