Acoma+Pueblo

Melissa Risser, Kelly Scott, and Zach Fleetman Acoma Pueblo, an oral religion passed down and being practiced for more then 500 years. Prayer being a very big part of their religion. Corn Maize was the first crop planted and is also a big part of their prayers. They grind it up and sprinkle it onto someone to something to bless it.



Importance of Origins, gods, and ancestors

The acoma people still live on the top of the mesa to remember who they are and where they live. These people do not believe in burials because they believe that we have all come from the earth emerging from that place of origination. So burials are not necessary, because when they die they are given back to the earth in which they came. Some thought that there were two human sisters named Nantsiti and Iatikuwho came from Shipapu which is underground. When they come on the earth they gave life into all living creatures. Iatiku made the clans of the Acoma Pueblo. Nautsiti disappeared and her decendants with not seen until the first Spanish contact with the Pueblo people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



Manataka American Indian Council. "Acoma History Brief." //Manataka American Indian Council// . Web. 16 Sept. 2010. .

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//__** Sacred Times, Practices and Space **__//
The Acoma Pueblo people are actually part of a big group Native American peoples. The sacred times of the Pueblo people are very general. There are different celebrations throughout the year that people will have rituals to bring about good weather. There is also the day the people came up from the center of the earth with their gods. Dances and rituals, including singing and chanting, were used to control natural occurrences. Whenever new practices are created the people will try to incorporate it into the general scheme of the culture. In the pueblos there is a special ceremonial room that is called a kiva. It is supposed to represent the hole where their ancestors and gods climbed into the world. There is also a room next to the kiva that stores all of the sacred masks and religious tools. they are stored here for when the people will do a ritual.

In the Pueblo religion there are different levels of cosmos. The middle cosmo is from where the people and their gods emerged. They climbed up into the third cosmo to the White House. From there the gods taught the people ceremonies to integrate them into the forces of the cosmos. Then they went on to their pueblo villages.

Pueblo dance ritual []

Remains of kiva

http://www.mountainsofstone.com/mesa_verde.htm

 "Southwest Native American Religion." American Eras__. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. //19 Sep. 2010 // // "Origin Myth of Acoma: Preface." // Internet Sacred Text Archive Home //. Web. 20 Sept. 2010. .