[Colorado-Talk] From out archives

[Peggy Chong]

We are making progress in the transcription of our archives.  I thought I
would share an article from almost 75 years ago, transcribed from our
scrapbook by one of our volunteers.

 

Peggy

 

[Newspaper Article:  Rocky Mountain News, March 14, 1947 written in the
margin]

 

Chief Manitou, Widely Known to Tourists, Is Dead.

 

Manitou Springs, March 13.

-(AP)-Pedro Cajata, 86, known throughout the country as Chief Manitou, died
at his home in the Santa Clara pueblo, Espanola, N.M., according to word
received by S. C. Crosby of Manitou Springs.  The funeral was today in
Espanola.

           It was Crosby who brought Cajata to Manitou Springs in 1907, when
he reassembled a cliff dwelling in a canon here as a tourist attraction.

Chief Manitou posed for pictures and became one of the most widely known
Indians of the West.  He also accompanied Colorado Springs business men on
good will tours in his native clothes to the Atlantic Coast.

Chief Manitou was blind for the last 10 years and lived in retirement in his
native home in New Mexico.  He was many times chief of the Santa Clara tribe
of Pueblo Indians and made repeated trips to Washington in their behalf.

 

 

 

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