It's likely that Barry Goldwater wasn't including the Hopi--who live not far north of his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona--in his thoughts when he said this, but they're who I have in mind in the quoting of it. I started Chapter 3 of Arizona today--titled "Spirit, Faith, and Reason"--which sets up a decades-long conflict between the Hopi pueblo of Walpi (specifically a descendant of several previous characters) and a Franciscan missionary (a descendant of the POV character in the last chapter) who spends the majority of his life there.
The Hopi don't mind becoming Christian so much as they object to having a lot of their other traditions taken away, along with serving as the Spanish labor force; the missionary is sincerely zealous about converting them and removing said traditions, though he grows increasingly uneasy about the Spanish Empire's increasingly harsh treatment of them. The ultimate result will be the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, though from the beginning of the chapter that's still 51 years away.
The last section of the chapter will feature a real-life fellow named Father Eusebio Kino, who was good-hearted, believed in reason as well as faith, and was usually well liked, but who became such a powerful force in southern Arizona that the missionary efforts all but collapsed after his death in 1711.
PROGRESS REPORT
New Words: 1450 on Chapter 3. Peace is declared between the Hopi and the Navajo on the cusp of the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to darken their doorsteps in decades, and a prophecy is inadvertently reaffirmed.
Total Words: 90850.
Reason For Stopping: Getting ready for work.
Book Year: 1629.
Mammalian Assistance: Vegas was doing his usual box-pile guarding until he got tired of not being allowed on my lap.
Exercise: Walked Tucker around the neighborhood; walked down to campus.
Stimulants: None.
Today's Opening Passage: Omawtiwa was nine years old before he saw a Navajo, and then he was surprised that they looked just like his own people.
Darling Du Jour: Nothing springs out at me.
Non-Research / Review Books In Progress:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dancinghorse; The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney; and a re-read of Philip Jose Farmer's The Wind Whales of Ishmael to help me write the reissue's introduction.
The Hopi don't mind becoming Christian so much as they object to having a lot of their other traditions taken away, along with serving as the Spanish labor force; the missionary is sincerely zealous about converting them and removing said traditions, though he grows increasingly uneasy about the Spanish Empire's increasingly harsh treatment of them. The ultimate result will be the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, though from the beginning of the chapter that's still 51 years away.
The last section of the chapter will feature a real-life fellow named Father Eusebio Kino, who was good-hearted, believed in reason as well as faith, and was usually well liked, but who became such a powerful force in southern Arizona that the missionary efforts all but collapsed after his death in 1711.
New Words: 1450 on Chapter 3. Peace is declared between the Hopi and the Navajo on the cusp of the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to darken their doorsteps in decades, and a prophecy is inadvertently reaffirmed.
Total Words: 90850.
Reason For Stopping: Getting ready for work.
Book Year: 1629.
Mammalian Assistance: Vegas was doing his usual box-pile guarding until he got tired of not being allowed on my lap.
Exercise: Walked Tucker around the neighborhood; walked down to campus.
Stimulants: None.
Today's Opening Passage: Omawtiwa was nine years old before he saw a Navajo, and then he was surprised that they looked just like his own people.
Darling Du Jour: Nothing springs out at me.
Non-Research / Review Books In Progress:
dancinghorse; The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney; and a re-read of Philip Jose Farmer's The Wind Whales of Ishmael to help me write the reissue's introduction.
