WARFARE AMONG THE PUEBLOS - MYTH, HISTORY, AND ETHNOGRAPHY

There is a large body of information available from diverse sources re lated to the historical importance of warfare in the Pueblo societies of the American Southwest. Sixteenth and seventeenth century historica l records from the first Europeans in the area, as well as twentieth-c entury ethnographies and the myths of the individual villages, provide a consistent picture of conflict and warfare among the different Pueb los.