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By James F. Brooks

“In this wealthy paintings of anthropology, archaeology, and private sleuthing, James Brooks conscientiously unravels a secret of huge violence that convulsed the wasteland Southwest a few 300 years ago―and that also sends off psychic shockwaves. here's a haunting story that also is deeply revealing, not just in regards to the historical Hopi Indians yet all human societies.”―Hampton facets, writer of Blood and Thunder

The Hopi group of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations till one bleak morning within the fall of 1700―raiders from within sight Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring males, girls, and kids. whereas little of the pueblo itself is still, 5 centuries of background lie underneath the low rises of sandstone masonry, and theories concerning the occasions of that evening are as continual because the wilderness winds. The easternmost city on Antelope Mesa, Awat’ovi was once popular for its martial energy, and have been the gateway to the full Hopi panorama for hundreds of years. Why did kinsmen objective it for destruction?

Drawing on oral traditions, archival debts, and vast archaeological learn, James Brooks unravels the tale and its value. Mesa of Sorrows follows the trend of an archaeological day trip, uncovering layer after layer of proof and theories. Brooks questions their reliability and exhibits how interpretations have been formed through educational, spiritual and tribal politics. Piecing jointly 3 centuries of research, he bargains perception into why a few have been spared―women, commonly, and brought captive―and others sacrificed. He weighs theories that the assault used to be in retribution for Awat’ovi having welcomed Franciscan missionaries or for the residents’ perform of sorcery, and argues ideal typhoon of inner and exterior crises revitalized an historical cycle of formality bloodshed and purification.

A haunting account of a stunning bloodbath, Mesa of Sorrows is a probing exploration of ways societies confront painful histories, and why communal violence nonetheless plagues us this day.

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