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This marks the site of the last encounter in the State of Kansas between Native Americans and the United States Troops. Homesick and ill, the Northern Cheyenne under the leadership of Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf were trying to return to . . . — — Map (db m65978) HM
On West Scott Lake Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Reconstructed here are the remains of a seven-room pueblo believed to have been built by Pueblo Indians from New Mexico. According to Spanish records Indians from Taos and Picuris Pueblos, fleeing Spanish rule, joined their Apache allies at a . . . — — Map (db m65952) HM
In 1899, when Prof. H. T. Martin of the University of Kansas made the first archeological excavations of El Cuartelejo, most of the lower part of the original stone work was still in place, as shown in this photograph. Evidences of several other . . . — — Map (db m65975) HM
On West Scott Lake Drive, on the right when traveling north.
This marks the site of the
Picurie Indian Pueblo
1604
which became an outpost
of Spanish civilization
and a rendezvous for
French traders prior to
1720 — — Map (db m65914) HM
Although El Cuartelejo is popularly associated with a Puebloan people, during most of its habitation it was actually used by a band of Plains Apache. They were descendants of Indians who came into the Plains from the North probably in late . . . — — Map (db m65954) HM
Stone from the surrounding hills was used to build El Cuartelejo pueblo. The walls were plastered inside and out with adobe and the roof was made of willow poles or brush covered with mud. When first excavated in abundant charcoal, burned tools . . . — — Map (db m65953) HM
