Acoma Pueblo

What a treat to visit the Acoma Pueblo! It was interesting to hear about the Acoma people and their traditions and to visit the site of their homes on top of a 365 ft. sandstone mesa near Albuquerque. For more info, read the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo. See pictures.
The most interesting part was that in their culture women own property and men govern. They have a clan system with over 12 clans, one of which is almost extinct because membership in a clan is passed from mother to children and one of the clans had all boys born into it, so when the last living member dies, that clan will cease to exist because that member is a male. It reminds me of my own family because my brother has no children, so he is the last Scott.
Names are so important to our identity, aren't they?