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place ("illed Pueblito | Puebla [15:25]], near tlie present Potrero ] 15: 

 unlocatedj, about 2 m. e. of Santa Cruz [15:l'.tJ, on the Rio Santa 

 Cruz [15:18]), occurred after the Pueblo revolt of 1680, and prior to 

 1()92, at which latter date the natives were found by Vargas in their 

 new locality. The pueblo was abandoned in Kiyj-, but was later re- 

 occupied, and was finally deserted in 1G96 after the murder of their 

 missionary in ,Tune of that year. ]\Iost of their descendants are now 

 among- the llopi of Arizona." ' It will be noticed that Bandelier ap- 

 pears not to have visited Tssewa-ii Pueblo ruin or vicinity, and 

 merely approximates tlie site of " Yam P"ham-ba" (San Cristobal) 

 as a pueblo [15:25]. Ilewett is more delinite, but his information 

 is contradicted by the writer's information. Even the Mexicans 

 living at Puebla [15:25] whom the author interviewed had appa- 

 rently never heard that TssewaJt. Pueblo ruin is called San Cristobal. 

 The history of the people of Tssewcui after thej' abandoned the 

 pueblo is, on the other hand, wideh' known among the Tewa. 

 Bandelier says merely: "After the expulsion of the Spaniards 

 [from New Mexico in 1G80], the Tanos of San Cristobal [29:45] 

 settled in the yicinity of Santa Cruz [15:19], as already related. 

 Most of their descendants are now among the IVIoquis [Hopi]."- 

 " It [San Cristobal by Santa Cruz [15:19]] was . . . finally deserted 

 in 169<), after the murder of the missionary Fray Jose de Arvizu on 

 the 4th of June."^ "Tsawari, on Tcewadi, oii vivait le peuple 

 Hano [unmapped], aujourd'hui a Hopi. Les Indiens de Santa 

 Clara et de San Ildefonso ont a cet egard de traditions. Dans 

 ces deux villages, on trouve encore des Indiens qui se i-ap- 

 pellent les visites faites par les Indiens Hano a leur demeure 

 ancestrale, selon une coutume en usage chez les Pueblos." ^ '' !Most 

 of their descendants [those of San Cristobal [29:45] and San 

 Lazaro [29:52]] are now among the -Hopi of Arizona."' The 

 writer has succeeded in obtaining from a number of Tewa 

 Indians the uniform information that the inhabitants of Tsxwa^U 

 were Tewa and that they fled to the Hopi several generations 

 ago to escape from the tyrann}^ of the Mexicans and to help 

 the Hopi fight the Navaho and the Mexicans. On reaching 

 the Hoj)! country they built a new pueblo, called "Tewa" (see 

 Hano [unmapped]). Hano Tewa frequently visit the Tewa and 

 other pueblos of the Rio Grande drainage, trading or selling 

 goods. They sometimes visit also Tsse.wa.ti, the site of their 

 former pueblo. Two Hano Tewa men visited the Tewa villages In 

 1910. Information obtained by a friend from J. M. Naranjo, an 

 aged Santa Clara Indian, assigns a reason not usually given for the 

 migration of the people: "Long ago people of our language 



■ Hoilge in Hatuibnok Inds., pt. 2, p. 428, 1910. a Ibid., p. 83. 



^Bandelier, Final Report, pt.n, p. 103, 1892. <Hewett, Communanli's, p.;il.l90.8. 



