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Show re eee 2 MILCKees SrSKE hestiete Citta ci: Coe ee IV ATE SP ash Powe at tr hee has VAT these various tribes of the Pueblos. This particular locality is very important in the deeds of the reconquistadores under General De Vargas. The of Zia, Bartolomé de Ojeda, distinguished himself. The battle was fought on the 17th of April. It was Ojeda that showed a new trail by which the potrero could be ascended. Escalante, in his Kelacton, p. 160, gives a detailed report of this fight; he Says: “‘Cayeron en gran numero y cercaron el pueblo, pusteron a los nuestros en gran aprieto y como los nues- tros eran tan pocosa atendian y solamente a defender las bocas calles del pueblo, y asi tuvieron lugar de huir ciento cincuenta de los pristoneros; lo cual visto vor los reveldes, se retwraron juzgando que ya habian librado a todos sus hijos y mugeres.’’ Escalante refers to a fight, in the nature of a surprise to the Spanish troops, which occurred after the potrero ty > Pee ree pal Ber lk eta bs FRE Ao Es DOMINGO. 7 PPET . Feo PERT cs bs SE The wording in this grant is practically the same as in others; the translation on file is very poorly done. PL PiPL Serre aes ee eee Pr)ee Da ee pe bt Se Pe Pe Pa be ee etees id PE PRI Nnd . — DE GUITARA, mabe Pb PrEpRo LADRON Pt BS The archive is signed by Don DoMINGO JIRONZA PETRIZ DE CRUZATE. BARTOLOME DE OJEDA. Certified before Secretary of Government and War. The boundaries as given are: On the north the Lomas Pelados — barren hills, near a rivulet running from where the sun rises, and empties into the Rio Bravo del Norte, and be the property to the east of Alonzo some water which is said bc be pet ey the to Catiti, near a white hill of alabaster, and to the west a little hill which is on the bank of the dry bed of a stream and where there 1s a cave the name of * on the south, to the side of a hill having Blanca Pelado towards the east. The Indians of Santo Domingo are of very pugnacious disposition; they resent any interference, In any way, with any of their customs or manners. There never has been a time in the history of New Mexico when the inhabitants of this pueblo may have been considered tractable. When the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was built, the located line was surveyed and built through the lands of these people in the valley of the Rio Grande; being a community grant, there was no way In which the title could be obtained by the railway company except by a proceeding to condemn; this was done, the attorney for the United States appearing for the pueblo; a decree was made and the company paid into court the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the right of way; this money Cer one of these that the Indian SANTO the In- - Mar- OF ar ee? 3 POPE PEF L LPC “t- 9-2 48-5 ® PELE EL rePioe Pree PEST Figs ts PP PEPE Pi PR RLM ot Pia a * 98 ee teleree ae. PLP SPR ft PGE Erk: eee ee oe od a er Peres Seer aa Oe trBe en Ce eePETeeEES es of San PUEBLO Grant. September 20, 1689. Made by Don Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, Governor and Captain-General, at El Paso. dians refused to accept and it remained in the custody of i Tanos R. No.H Bee those 0oc- it with again #4 along cos. De Vargas fought several very severe engagements before he succeeded in reducing these people. It was in never D still on the potrero it was oJ in 1693, the and . Mexico, people of Cochiti had not kept their agreement and were Fe Par y: Pare ar reer ye RS jan ek Se Sk * ities Fas Pie oe ee ee ee ee ee ee oc yaa - * rol eee be rd PS ee Pe fe Sone SPY 87 ey ted elit SE ere ee ores eatetate ie aes Vargas was satisfied. When De Vargas returned to New Santa + in this vicinity. _ When De Vargas visited them in 1692, they all promised to give in their allegiance, with which statements De for eb te a dnPe When Otermin went back to El Paso in 1681, the pueb- los were all re-occupied by the Indians left cupied. oe as early as 1598. he In this sur‘‘Chusma.’’ captured in occurred on the potrero rt present village of Cochitt was occupied Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi, p. 102. gq. v. Vetancurt in his Cronica says that it was located ‘‘al lado izquierdo del fio del Norte tres leguas de Santo Domingo.’’ They retired to the cafiada when they received word that Otermin was on his way back to re-conquer the country. The maestro de campo states, 1681, that an Indian told him at San Felipe ‘‘Al qual le pregunté en su lengua por la gente del pueblo, y respondié haberse ido huyendo 4 la Creneguilla, 6 Pueblo de Cochiti.’’ Mendoza was taken to task by Otermin because of his retreat from Cochiti in 1681. Mendoza knew his force was too small to risk a battle with these Indians and retreated to the pueblo of Puara, near Bernalillo. before gained and the Indians defeated. Vargas lost 150 of his prisoners or only about one-half of the Indians of the preceding 17th; this surprise De Vargas burned the pueblo on a ity between had been prise De This was the fight the 20th. 99-459 -4>4-4 had come there because of their enemies, the T’ehuas, Tanos, and the Picuriés. 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