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Show 368 ACOMA AND LAGUNA NOTED. canst come to- morrow with us; we are three; the road village has been most prominent in early Spanish history of the southwest, it having been visited by all the important expeditions into New Mexico during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The inhabitants, who belong to the Keresan ( Queres) stock, early established a reputation for hostility. They fought bravely against Zaldivar in 1599, but were overcome after a three days' conflict. They killed Fray Lucas Mal-donado, their missionary, during the Pueblo revolt of August, 1680, were reconquered with the other Pueblo Indians by Vargas in 1692, rebelled again in 1696, but finally submitted. Present population, about 566. Among the names applied by various writers to the people and their village are: Abucios, Acama, Acmaat, A- co, Acogiya, Acoman, Acomeses, Acomo, Acona, Aconia, Acquia, Acu, Acuca, • Acuco, Acucu, Acus, Acux, Aioma, Ako- ma, Alcuco, A- quo, Asoma, Coco, Pefiol, Quebec of the Southwest, Queres Gibraltar, San Esteban de Acoma ( mission name), San Pedro ( de Acoma, another mission name), Suco, Vacus, Vsacus, Yacco, Yaco.- F. W. H. The proper name of Laguna is Ka- waik', of unknown signification. This is a Queres pueblo of 1,143 inhabitants on San Jose river and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad in western central New Mexico, about fifty miles west of Albuquerque. It is the most recent of all the pueblos in New Mexico, having been settled probably not long before 1689 ( when the first documentary mention of the pueblo appears to have been made) by a Zufii and a Sia family, later joined by some natives of Acoma, San Felipe, Moki, Sandia, and Jemez. Laguna derived its popular name from a lake which formerly existed west of the village. The settlement is gradually being abandoned, the inhabitants preferring to reside the year around at what were formerly only summer farming villages. These are: Mesita ( Hat- sat- yi), Paguate ( Kwi'- st'yi), Santa Ana ( Pun- yis'- t'yi), Casa Blanca |