🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 7

Long before the first Spaniards came to New Mexico (and _that_ was three hundred and fifty years ago) Isleta stood where it stands to-day--on a lava ridge that defies the gnawing current of the Rio Grande.

Who acts: first Spaniards, that, Isleta, One, lava ridge · What happens: come, be, stand, defy, gnaw · To what, where: _, New Mexico, three hundred, lava ridge, gnawing current

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