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Show 80 VI. NAAKAIIXBAHI NINAAD^y move much farther and more quickly. This meant that they could strike at distant targets and quickly retreat beyond the reach of soldiers. The Long Peace After the campaigns of 1709 came four years of peace. But new army campaigns were needed in 1713, 1714, and 1716. Then a long peace at last brought the war between the Spaniards and the Navajos to an end. The Spaniards had grown weary of battle. They made greater efforts to avoid war. And one major reason for the earlier campaigns no longer seemed as important. After the reconquest, the Spaniards had felt a need to recover the many Pueblos who had joined the Navajos. In the 1690s, these Pueblo rebels seemed to pose a great threat. They influenced the Navajos they joined, and they were a missing link in the chain of Pueblo unity that the Spaniards were trying to create. But by 1716 the Pueblo rebellion was little more than a memory. The Pueblos had become full members of the tribes they had joined. So they seemed less of a threat. The Spaniards tried a new plan. They made strict rules for trade. Settlers could not trade with the frontier Indians. Special permission was needed to remove or sell horses, on which the Indian trade was based. Finally, no one could buy soldiers' equipment because it could not be replaced. The People had their own reasons for stopping the war with the Spaniards. New enemies attacked them on the north and east. Two Shoshonean tribes, the Utes and the Comanches, were making life hard for the People. For years the Spaniards had been confused about Ute-Navajo relations. In 1704, fearing an alliance between the two, they made friends with the Utes. This stopped some common efforts among Spain's enemies. But it also caused the Navajos and some of the Apaches to join together because they did not like the special trading granted the Utes. Seeing that, the Spaniards invited the Navajos to share in the trade. But before long Spain feared a new Ute, Navajo, and Apache league. The Spaniards reacted with strength, forcing the Utes to give up their Athabascan allies. Then the Utes joined with a group of new southwesterners, the Comanches. Until the Utes brought the Comanches to the Taos trade fair about 1705, the Spaniards had not known of the newcomers. Then the governor quickly made a treaty with the two tribes, leaving the Navajos at their mercy. Utes and Comanches raided deep in Navajoland. Herds of |