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Acoma
[ ak-uh-maw-, -muh, ah-kuh ]
noun
- a Pueblo Indian village near Albuquerque, New Mexico, built on a sandstone mesa: oldest continuously inhabited location in the U.S.
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He was a very brave man, and hearing about the "Sky City" of Acoma, he resolved to visit it.
And it is in memory of his coming among them that the stone stairway of Acoma is still known as the "Path of the Father."
In Acoma there were full three hundred warriors, reinforced by at least a hundred Navajo braves.
On the afternoon of the eleventh day the tired soldiers passed the last intervening mesa, and came in sight of Acoma.
A pueblo is a fortress in itself; and now Zaldivar had to storm Acoma house by house, room by room.
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