PARSONS] OKAI'BI, the LAGinsrA COLONY 349 



decided upon migration. They moved first to Mesita, about 3 miles 

 from Laguna, and thence, some of them, to Isleta, arriving some time, 

 perhaps a year, before the railway came through, which was in the 

 year 1880. This comparative dating of the immigration is from an 

 aged Isletan, one of the three surviving scalp takers. Juanita Torres, 

 one of the surviving immigrants, who looks about 60, said that when 

 she and her faniily stopped at Mesita she got married there, before 

 moving on to Isleta. 



According to Isleta tradition the immigrants were intending to go 

 on even farther eastward to Sandia, but they were arrested by the 

 Isletan liierarchy, invited to stay, and promised land. Had they not 

 with them their Mothers (iema'paru), who would "bring good luck" 

 to Isleta? To-day, at old Laguna, there are sore eyes ''' and lame- 

 ness '^ among the people, because some of their Mothers were carried 

 away and even those they still have they do not regard. 



Juanita Torres's estimate of the number of the immigrants was by 

 family; there were seven male heads of fanuly. This estimate corre- 

 sponds with the recollection of the old scalp taker. Twelve men and 

 women went first, others followed with the children, he said, to fomi 

 a colony of between thirty and forty persons.'^ From an Isletan 

 woman married into the Laguna colony and familiar with their history 

 I got the following list of immigrants, together with their Keresan 

 clan affihations. 



LIST II 



1. Francisco Correo, Sun clan. 



2. Maria Correo or Tsi"ti\\'i, Sun clan. Wife of 1. 



3. Lorenzo Correo, Sun clan. Brother of 1. 



4. Maria Abeita or Shuitia (Keresan) , Sun clan. Wife of 3. 



5. Jose Antonio Correo, Sun clan. Brother of 1, 3. 



6. Lucia Siu'tina, Lizard clan. Wife of 5. 



7. Casilflo Velho or lunai, Lizard clan, widower at time of migration. 



8-9. Shauunai, daughter of 7, and Jos6 Antonio Gayama, son of 7, who married 

 daughter of 3 and 4. 



10. Matia Garcia, Lizard clan. 



11. Jos6 Rita, Lizard clan. 



12. Maria Rita, Lizard clan. Wife of 11. 



13. Juan Rey Churina " or .\ute', Lizard clan. 



14. Lupi Churina, Sun clan. Wife of 13. 



15. Jos6 Mariano Churina or Yute', Lizard clan. Brother of 13. 



16. Benina Yuwai, Lizard clan. Wife of 15. 



17. Jose Miguel Churina, Lizard clan. Brother of 13, 15. 



'* There i.s, in fact, much trachoma at Laguna. 



" As a basis for this report there is one hunchback at Laguna. 



" Writing in 1891, LummLs states that a generation before, owing to a great drought, about 150 Keres from 

 Acoma and Laguna settled in Isleta (Lummis 3: 206). An earlier immigration than tlie one we are dis- 

 cussing? But what became of the liescendants of these Kere,-;? I incline to think that Lummis wa-s merely 

 misinformed about the migration of 18S0. 



'" This is an Isletan patnmymic as are others in this list. The Laguna people were without Spanish 

 patronymics, so they borrowed from Isletans. 01 Casildo and his children it was said that "they gave 

 themselves to the Luceros and took their name," 



