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the tribes of Cochiti and San Felipe once formeii one group at Kua-pa [28:61], 

 that some hostile invasion caused their dispersion, one branch retiring to the 

 south, while the other took refuge on the Potrero Viejo [28:50] and built a tem- 

 porary village at least on top of this almost impregnable rock. I regard it as 

 not at all unlikely that the aggressors were Tehiuis [Tewa], since this has been 

 told me by the people of Cochiti on many occasions.' The settlers at the Canada 

 [28:52] emphatically confirmed these statements [that the aggressors were 

 Tewa], as having been told ever since their ancestors had settled there by the 

 old men of Cochiti as genuine traditions of tlieir [Cochiti] tribe. At all events, 

 the valley of the Canada [28:51.'] and its surroundings were the last station of 

 the Queres [Kercsans] of Cochiti, and probably nf San Felipe, before they estab- 

 lished themselves on the banks of the Rio Grande.- 



Santo Domingo [28:109] is rich in historical reminiscences; but it would carry 

 me too far to refer to them here in detail. The next ruin [29:63] south of it 

 [28:109], which I have not seen, is near the village of Cubero [28:unlocated], 

 on the west side of the Rio Grande. It is called by the Indians of San Felipe 

 Kat-isht-ya, or Tyit-i Haa, as the site of the ruin itself, or that of Cul^ero near 

 by, is meant. Tradition [of which pueblo?] has it that the first village of the 

 San Felipe [29:69] branch of the Queres [Keresans] was built there. The 

 substance of this fnik-tale is as follows. 



When the 'Pinini ' .surprised the pueblo of Kuapa, they slew nearly all its 

 inhabitants [see [28:61]]. A woman concealed herself behind a metate, and a 

 • bo.y hid in a store-room. Along with the woman was a parrot. After the enemy 

 had left, the parrot took charge of the boy and fed him till he was grown up, 

 when he directed him and the woman to go south in search of new homes. 

 So they wandered away, the boy carrying tlie parrot and a certain charm or 

 fetich, which was contained in a bowl of cla)'. The Indians of the pueblo of 

 Sandia [29:100], to whom they first applied for hospitality, received them coldly. 

 The fugitives accordingly turned to the east, and went to the Tanos [see Names op 

 Tribes and Peoples], probably of the village of Tunque [29:82]. Here the 

 woman gave birth to five children, four boys and one girl. The boys of the 

 Tanos often taunted these youngsters with being foreigners, and, nettled by these 

 'taunts, they asked their motlier about their origin. She told them the story of 

 her past, and acknowledged that the Tanos [Tano] country was not theirs. She 

 told them that at the foot of the mesa of Ta-mi-ta [29:65], a height in the shape 

 of a truncated cone, nearly opposite San Felipe [29:69], on the east bank of the 

 Rio Grande, they would find their future home. Thereupon the boys set out, 

 following the course of the Arroyo del Tunque [29:70] to the mesa [29:65} 

 indicated, and succeeded in raising abundant crops in the Rio Grande valley. 

 There had been a famine among the Tanos for two years, and therefore the 

 boys carried their harvests home to their mother. In course of time the 

 Queres [Keresan] refugees left the Tanos permanently, and built a village 

 [29:63] west of the Rio Grande at Cubero [28:unlocated]. This [29:63] was 

 the first pueblo called Kat-isht-ya. Subsequently that village was abandoned, 



1 " But when Diego de Vargas visited the Potrero Viejo |28:5li] for the first time, on Oct. 21, 1G92, the 

 Queres [KcresansJ of Cochiti and San Felipe, and the Tanos of San Marcos [A'loi/^'ojicj 129:unlo- 

 eated]] , who occupied the pueblo [28:58] on its summit, uiformed him that they had fled thither out of 

 lear of their enemies, the Tehuas [Tewa], Tanos, and Picuries [Picuris]. Aulas tic Gucrra de la Primcra 

 Campana d la Rcconquista del Nuevo Mexico, fol. 141,— a manuscript in the Territorial archives of Santa 

 Ti. It is true that the Queres [Keresans] and Tanos, possibly also the Tehuas [Tewa], were in open 

 hostility during the time the Spaniards were away from New .Mexico from ICSO to ltl92. But still the 

 truth of their statements to Vargas may be subject to doubt. It is quite as likely that they retreated, 

 to the mesa [28:56] after the successful raid of Pedro Reneros Posada upon Santa Ana [28:95] in 1GS7." — 



B.\Nr)ELiER, Final Report, pt. ii, pp. 166-67, note, 1892. 



2Ibid., pp. 166-67. 



