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According to San Juan tradition, the present pueblo is the tliiid 

 one which has been called 'Cfe. The first ^Oke Pueblo is [10:-J<;|, 

 the ruins of which are about a mile north of the present San Juiui. 

 \\'hen this pueblo was destroyed bj' a miraculous flood, tlie inlial) 

 itants built a second pueblo called ^Oke at K^dig.i'r' [11:17], the 

 ruin of which has not been located. This second pueblo was only 

 a few hundred yards northwest of the third and present pueblo of 

 ^Oke, which is situated on the height or mesa near Kuttg.Pi'', the 

 latter name applying to a low place. Why the second-built 

 pueblo was abandoned for the present site was not known to the 

 informants. The now ruined pueblo of Jit.7j(/e [13:27] and the 

 pueblo of ' Ole (the present San Juan) used to be "like brothers," 

 it is said. When Jy,rjge was abandoned its inhabitants went to 

 live at ' Oke or at Pueblita [13:15]. When Juijge was permanently 

 abandoned seems not to be known to the historians. Bandelier' 

 says: "Yuge-uingge must have been still occupied in lo'il, for 

 Oastaneda says, in Cibola, p. 138: 'Mais ceux de Yuque-yunque 

 abandonnerent deux beaux villages qu'iis possedaient sur les bords 

 du tleuve, et se retirerent dans les montagnes . . . On trouva 

 beaucoup de vivres dans les deux villages abandonnes' ". 



Bandelier ol)tained the following interesting tradition from the 

 San Juan Indians: ^ Indian folk-lore has nmch to say about Yuge- 

 uingge. The Tehuas relate that when their ancestors journeyed 

 southward from Cibobe, and the division into summer and winter 

 people occurred, of which I have spoken in the First Part 0"f this 

 Report [p. 303], the summer people, under the guidance of the 

 Pa3'-oj-ke or Po-a-tuyo, settled at Y^uge-uingge; but the winter 

 people, after wandering over the eastern plains for a long 

 while, at last went in search of their brethren, and established 

 themselves near San Juan in sight of the other's village at 

 Chamita. Finally it was agreed upon that a bridge should be 

 built across the Rio Grande, and the official wizards went to work 

 and constructed it by laying a long feather of a parrot over the 

 stream from one side, and a long feather of a magpie from the 

 other. As soon as the plumes met over the middle of the stream, 

 people began to cross on this remarkable bridge; but bad sor- 

 cerers caused the delicate structure to turn over, and many people 

 fell into the river, where they became instantly changed into 

 fishes. For tliis reason the Navajos, Apaches, and some of the 

 Pueblos refuse to eat fish to this day. The story goes on to tell 

 that both factions united and lived together at Oj-ke on the east 

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The present writer obtained a somewhat different version of 

 the same tale, which is given under Sifoj/e, Mythic Places, 



1 BandelitT. Fiiiiil Report, pt. ii, p. 61, note, 1892. » Ibid., pp. 60-61. 



