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(3) Span. "Sunt Gabriel."' "San Gabriel." ^ " Sant Ga- 

 briele."^ 



"The pueblo was voluntaril}' r(;lin([ui.sb('(l to the Spaniards under 

 Onate in 1598, the inhabitants joining their kindred at San Juan. 

 In the year named the first white settlement in the West was here 

 made, under the name ' San Francisco de los Espafioles,' and on 

 Septeml)er 8 the chapel was consecrated. In the following year 

 the name was changed to San Gabriel, which has been retained 

 by the Mexicans as the name of the place to this day. San Gabriel 

 was abandoned in tlie spring of 1605 and Santa Fe founded as the 

 seat of the New Mexican provincial government.'""' The older 

 Indians of San Juan are still familiar witii the name San Gabriel.^ 



[13:28] (1) Eng. Chamita settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (-J). 



(2) Span. Chamita, diminutive of Chama <San ,Juan Tsqmd/ 

 see discussion under |5:7J. "The name Chamita datcsfrom the 

 eighteenth century, and was given in order to distinguish it from 

 the settlements higher up on the Chama River.'"" "Chamita."' 

 "La ville mexicaine de Chamita.""" The Tewa use the Mexican 

 name only. 



The name Chamita is applied definitely to the settlement 

 [13:28]; also vaguely to the whole region about this settlement. 

 See [5:7], [13:27], [13:31]. 



[13:29] Chamita warehouse or station. 



[13:30] (1) San Juan Juyjcoliie 'little hills of [13:27]' {Jy,r)ge, see 

 [13:27]; 'c/im 'hill'; 'e diminutive). This is the old name. 



(2) San Juan Tf<tmlta^okii'e 'little hills of [13:28]' {Tfamlta, 

 Span. Chamita, see [13:28]; \il-u 'hill'; 'o diminutive). 



These hills are mentioned under the name first given, in a San 

 Juan myth. 



[13:31] Siui Juan Tat' OTjlcejii 'grass shooting up height' {ta 'grass'; 

 t'qijf 'to shoot upward,' said to refer here to the slope of the land 

 itself; IcimI 'height"). 



At the grassy rise known l)y this name Mr. Romelo de Herrera 

 has a store. Mexicans at the place said that they include this 

 under the name Chamita. The arroj-o indicated on the map, 

 west of the circle indicating this place, is presumably named 

 Taf qijlceJ'ikuhi or Tat'oyhu^i {hii'u 'large groove' 'arroyo"). 



lOnate (1598) in Doc. Ined.. xvi, p. 116, 1871. 



2 Sliea, Cath. Miss., p. 78, 1S70. 



^Bandelierin Pop«rs.Ji-L'A. 7hs/., I, p. 19, 1888 



■I Hodge in Handbook Inds., pt. 2, p. 1007, 1910. 



^ For a ground plan of the ruin see Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, pi. i, fig. 10, 1892. For a descrip- 

 tion see the same worlt, pp. B8-f>3,and Hewett, Antiiiuities, No. 38, 1906. See also San Juan Pueblo 

 under [11]. 



« Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 62, note, 1892. 



'Ibid., p. 59 et passim. 



'Hewett, Communaut(%, p. 30, 1908. 



