Acoma
Literature
Stories
Origin of Summer and Winter
The oldest tradition of the Acoma and Laguna peoples indicates
they lived on an island off the California Coast. Their homes
were destroyed by high waves, earthquakes, and red-hot stones
from the sky. They escaped and landed on a swampy part of the
coast. From there they migrated inland to the north. Wherever
they made a longer stay, they built a traditional White City,
made of whitewashed mud and straw adobe brick, surrounded by
white-washed adobe walls. Their fifth White City was built in
southern Colorado, near northern New Mexico. The people are
finally obliged to leave there on account of cold, drought, and
famine.
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