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Show PUEBLO REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 377 After Otermin’s unsuccessful venture nothing seems to have been done by him looking to another entry of the country which he had lost. The Franciscan friars, however, were EVENTS AT EL PASO— _ busy in the establishment of missions in MISSIONS FOUNDED and around the region of El Paso. As a nucleus for their work they had the Indians of the Piros, Tompiros, and Tiguas nations, who had come south with Otermin and others who came later, and with these three missions were founded, Seneca, Socorro, and Isleta. The missions of Senecii and Socorro were composed of the Piros and Tompiros, and that of Isleta of Tiguas. It is believed that the rule of Otermin as governor terminated in the year of his return, for it is known that in the following year, 1683, Bartolomé de Estrada Ramirez, a ‘knight of the Order of Santiago,’’ was captain-general and governor of New Mexico, but as to any of his official acts there is nothing of record that has been found. In the month of August, 1683, Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate became governor of New Mexico. He held the office for four years, became involved in some RULE OF DON PETRIZ DOMINGO DE JIRONZA CRUZATE controversies with the governor of Nueva Viscaya and was probably suspended from office by the viceroy. A historian of the times, and a nephew of the governor, says that Cruzate had been sent by his emperor, Carlos II, from Cadiz in 1680, as visitador of the Leaward Islands, with a force of fifty Mexico made a report, the autos, he commented in which, after a careful in severe terms résumé of the entrada on the acts of Dominguez from de Men- doza, recommending criminal prosecution of that officer; and he also blamed other convenient Otermin for not having made a stand at Sandia or some pueblos and point, since the large stores.of maize destroyed in the southern left undestroyed in the north would have sufficed to restore the horses and favored, fiscal The received. be could Support the army until help or new orders the New the proposed settlement and presidio at El Paso, though however, Mexican soldiers should not be permitted to enlist in the southern presidial and keep together all Company; and he also approved strict measures to collect The governor’s leave fugitives of the colony, whether Spaniards or Indians. of absence was not granted.’’ _ The Indians from Isleta who accompanied Otermin lished Isleta del Sur, in the present state of Texas, pueblo of Tiguas. Northern When it was repeopled with whom south settled and estabwhere there 1s today a Isleta remained vacant and in ruins until 1718, Tiguas who had returned from the Moquis, to years of independent the majority of the tribe had fled during the twelve Pueblo domination, after the departure of Otermin in 1680. |