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in ruins, although one of them, east of the Wikwaliobi-kiva, is still 
inhabited by an old woman of the Asa clan. 
Toward the end of the eighteenth century the majority of the 
women of the Asa phratry moyed to another point on the East mesa 
and founded the pueblo of Sichumovi, where their descendants still 
live. 
The exodus of the Asa people to the Navaho country may have been 
about the year 1780, when Anza was governor of New Mexico. At 
that time we learn that the Hopi were in sore distress owing to the 
failure of their crops, as the legend also states, and many moved to 
the Navaho country, where men were killed and women *‘ reduced to 
slavery.” InSeptember of the year named, Anza found that two Hopi 
pueblos had been abandoned and that forty families had departed.' 
As the legends declare that the Asa left at about this time for the 
same region, it is probable that these were the people to whom Anza 
refers. 
It is not unlikely that the Asa and Tewa clans formed a part of the 
Tanoan people who were forced to leave the upper Rio Grande yalley 
directly after the great rebellion of 1680. Niel is said to have stated? 
that at about this time 4,000 Tanos went to Tusayan by way of Zuni, 
which is the trail the present Asa people say their ancestors took. 
We are told that they went to Alaki, and as the Ala (Horn) people 
were then strong at the settlements of Walpi, on the terrace of the 
East mesa, it is not improbable that their yillage was sometimes called 
Alaki, or ‘Horn pueblo.” From the Hopi side we find verification 
of this historical event, for it is said that many people came to them 
from the great river just after the rebellion of 1680. The number 
mentioned by Niel, the statement that they went to Oraibi, and indeed 
all that pertains to the ** kingdom founded by Trasquillo,” may have 
been from hearsay. At all events the Asa people do not seem to 
have gone to Oraibi, nor are their clans now represented at this 
pueblo. 
As hearing on the claim of Asa traditionists, the following quota- 
tion from that well-known scholar, Bandelier, has great importance: 
The modern town of Abiquiu stands almost on the site of an ancient village. The 
town was built in part by Genizaros or Indian captives, whom the Spaniards had 
rescued or purchased from their captors. The Tehuas of Santa Clara contend that 
most of these Genizaros came from the Moquis, and that therefore the old pueblo 
was called Josoge. * 
As the Asa legends claim the site or vicinity of Abiquiu as their 
Rio Grande home, it would have been a natural proceeding if any of 

1See Bancroft, Works, vol. xv11 (New Mexico and Arizona), p. 186. 
2See Bancroft, op. cit., and others. 
$ Final Report, part 2, p. 54. 
