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738 Concerning Two Divisions of Indians. [December, 
in three-story buildings, — several families in a building, — and 
form a marked contrast to the Aztec buildings of to-day. 
The ruins in the same country convey the idea that a similar 
kind of buildings inhabited by this class of people existed many 
years ago. The Pimos formerly lived in large buildings of sev- 
eral stories, and a good many persons in a building, but the Span- 
iards entered the country, and waged war with their Aztec neigh- 
bors, the Apaches; at the same time the Pimos acquired horses 
and arms from the Spanish, which also assisted them in coping 
with their enemies. The Apaches being thus placed in a condition 
to leave their communal dwellings, their lands became worn out. 
They now settled on a new tract of land close to their old homes, 
building small houses suited to each family. The reason that 
Indians live in communities is for better protection from their 
-enemies. There seem to have been in the past as in the pres- 
ent periods constant war between the two divisions of Indians. 
The Aztec sbeing the most numerous and warlike and without 
fixed habitations, were an enemy to be feared, very difficult to 
conquer, and so tenacious of their freedom that the priests had to 
resort to force as well as to persuasion before any could be gath- 
ered into the church fold. 
The Toltecs, being settled in communities in order to protect 
themselves from the Aztecs, were more easily influenced by the 
priests, and now most of them have adopted more or less of the 
Catholic religion. Heretofore the pottery found not only in the 
ruins and mounds of the country under consideration, but that 
scattered on the surface in fragments, has been considered by 
writers as the workmanship of the Aztecs; but the fact is that 
formerly, as at the present time, this pottery is made by the Tol- 
tees, or burying Indians, and it is identical with that made by 
the same division of Indians to this day ; while the Aztecs make a 
very rude class of pottery, which gives the impression that they 
may have borrowed the art of pottery-making from their Toltec 
neighbors. It is rough and of inferior ornamentation. The Az- i 
tec is superior to his Toltec neighbor in ‘the art of warfare, and 
is a more successful hunter; on the other’ hand, the Pueblo or 
Toltee surpasses him in the architectural magnificence of his 
dwellings and in his superior mode of tilling the soil, and also 
in his systematic form of government. The advent of Europe- 
ans, the acquisition of horses, the establishment of Catholic me . : 
sions, and the introduction of fire-arms among the Indians were — a 
no doubt the cause of most, if not all, of the modern changes — 
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