Ii.vRHiNt;TOX] PLACE-NAMES 483 



According to Bandelier, this Tano Tewa pueblo ruin is situated 

 not on Galisteo Creek [29:34], but on a tributary thereof called 

 Arro3'0 de los Angeles or Arroyo del Intierno [29:44]. 



The history of Galisteo is summarized by Hodge' as follows: 



A former Tano [see Names of Tribes and Peoples, page 576] pueblo 1 .V miles 

 northeast of the present hamlet [29:40] of the same name. . . . Identified by 

 Bandelier (Archxol. Inst. Papers, iv, 122, 1892) with the Ximena of Coronado, 

 who visited the village in 1541, when it consisted of 30 houses. Galisteo was 

 the seat of a Franciscan mission perhaps as early as 1617 — certainly in 1629 — 

 and in 1680 contained 800 neophytes and a fine church; Pan Christobal [29;45] 

 was a visita at this date. In the revolt of the Pueblos in August of the latter 

 year the Indians of Galisteo killed the resident priest, Ijesides the father custo- 

 dian of New Mexico, the missionaries of San Marcos and Pecos, who were on 

 their way to give warning, and several colonists. After the remaining Spanish 

 colonists had been driven out of the country the Tano of Galisteo removed to 

 Santa F6 and erected a village on the ruins of the old Palace, but were expelled 

 by Vargas in 1692. In 1706 the town was reestablished with 90 Indians by tlie 

 governor of the province under the name Nuestra Sefiora de los Remedios de 

 Galisteo, but it was also called Santa ilaria. It remained an inconsideraljle 

 village until between 1782 and 1794, when the inhabitants, decimated by small- 

 pox and by the persistent hostilities of the Comanche, removed to Santo 

 Domingo pueblo [29:109], where their descendants still live, preserving the 

 language of their ancestors and in part tlieir tribal autonomy. At one time, 

 according to Bandelier, Galisteo probably had a population of 1,000. In 1712 

 it numbered 110 souls; in 1748, 50 families, and but 52 souls in 1782, just before 

 its abandonment. 



Galisteo is treated bj' Bandelier. - 



Thei'e are at Santo Domingo Pueblo [29:109] a few descendants 

 of Galisteo Indians who remember some of the Galisteo Tewa 

 language. How many there are and whether they still preserve 

 their tribal autonomy are subjects verj' difficult to investigate, 

 owing to the hostility and reticence of the Santo Domingo In- 

 dians. While at Santo Domingo in 19U8 the writer succeeded in 

 interviewing an old woman, but only for about two minutes, for 

 her fears soon got the best of her and she commanded him to 

 leave the house lest she be flogged bj' the governor for giving him 

 information; the door was locked during the rest of his stay 

 at Santo Domingo. The old woman stated that both her father 

 and mother were born at Galisteo. She recalled the Galisteo 

 words with some hesitation and pronounced some of them with a 

 noticeably Keresan accent. It is pure good fortune that the 

 vocabulary was obtained. In all, 13 words were recorded, as fol- 

 lows : 



' Handbook Inds, pt. 1, pp. 4S1-.S2, 1907. 

 sFiual Report, pt. ii, pp. 100-03, 1892. 



