THE PUEBLO DWELLERS. 65 
referred to by name now completely in ruins and hard 
to identify. 
Cicuye. On the Pecos River was the one large 
pueblo known to the men of Coronado by the name 
Cicuye. It was estimated at that time to contain 500 
fighting men. ‘The population of Pecos slowly de- 
creased, room after room of the great pueblo being 
abandoned, until in 18388 the handful of survivors 
moved to Jemez. 
Jemez. This was originally a province, given the 
name Hemes by Castaneda, which in his time con- 
sisted of seven villages with three additional ones at 
Aguas Calientes, Jemez Hot Springs. The popula- 
tion was concentrated during the seventeenth century 
until only two of these villages were occupied. After 
the rebellion, during which Jemez suffered particularly, 
only one village was maintained. 
Tewa. Northward was Yugueyunque, at the 
mouth of the Chama, and six villages in the mountains 
which probably included the pueblos north of Santa 
Fé. Finally, several leagues to the north were the two 
pueblos of Picuris and Taos, the latter called Braba, 
both located nearly as they stand to-day. 
Besides these inhabited villages, others are men- 
tioned as having been recently destroyed by a Plains 
tribe, the Teya, possibly the Comanche. 
Castafieda summarizes the Rio Grande region with a 
statement that these sixty-six villages were scattered 
over a distance of 130 leagues having the province of 
Tiguex near the middle with a combined population of 
20,000 men. 
It appears that the area which ruins show once to 
have been inhabited by sedentary peoples had been re- 
duced nearly half at the time the Spanish first entered 
the country, and the number of inhabited villages to- 
