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Show FRANCISCO VASQUEZ CORONADO 233 This captain did not proceed beyond where the river sank into the sands, because he was commissioned by Arellano to go only a distance of eighty leagues, and therefore he returned to Tiguex, where he found the commander much exercised because of the failure of pes ce a soe ae ig Seger ates ~ 14 Hi) _* —— os al peer Sl — it PE Me este ~ Coronado to return within the promised time, which had already expired. Owing to this fact, Arellano placed Barrionuevo in comand Tenabé depending entirely on the storage of rainwater for their supply. In addition to the three pueblos named, Bandelier has concluded that the now ruined villages known by the Spanish names Pueblo Blanco, Pueblo Colorado and the Pueblo de la Parida, were probably the eleven inhabited settlements of the Salinas seen by Chamuscado in 1580, but at least three of this number were occupied by the Tigua. Juan de Ofiate, in 1598, also visited the pueblos of the Salinas, and to Fr. Francisco de San Miguel, a chaplain of Ofiate’s forces, was assigned the Piro country as part of his mission district. The headquarters of this priest being at Pecos, many miles to the northward, it is not likely that much active mission work was done among the Piro during his incumbency, which covered only about three years. ‘* The first actual missions among the Piro pueblos of the Salinas were established in 1629 by Francisco de Acevedo at Abé and Tabira, and probably also at Tenabé; but before the massive-walled churches and monasteries were complcted, the village dwellers of both the Salinas and the Rio Grande suffered so seriously from the depredations of the Apaches, that Senecii on the Rio Grande, as well as every pueblo of the Salinas, was deserted before the great pueblo insurrection of 1680. Prior to the raid on Seneci by the Apache, in 1675, six of the inhabitants of that village were executed for the murder of the alcalde mayor and four other Spaniards. Probably on account of the fear with which the Spaniards were known to be regarded by the Piro after this occurrence, they were not invited by the northern pueblos to participate in the revolt against the Spaniards in 1680; consequently when Otermin, the governor, retreated from Santa Fé to El Paso in that year, he was joined by nearly all the inhabitants of Socorro, Sevilleta and Alamillo. These, with the former inhabitants of Senecii, who, since the destruction of their village by the Apache, had resided at Socorro, were afterwards established in the new villages of Socorro, Texas, and Senecti del Sur (‘Seneei of the South’) in Chihuahua, on the Rio Grande below El Paso, where their remnant still survives. ‘‘In attempting to re-conquer New Mexico in the following year, Otermin caused Alamillo to be burned, because the few remaining inhabitants fled at his approach. Only three families remained at Sevilleta when the Spaniards retreated, but these had departed and the pueblo was almost in ruins on their return in 1681. ‘*The entire Piro division of the Tanoan family probably numbered 9,000 early in the seventeenth century. Now, only about sixty individuals are known to survive, and although these still retain a shadow of their aboriginal customs, they are ‘Mexicans’ to all intents and purposes, and perhaps only one or two have any remembrance of their native language.’’ Bancroft, Hubert H., Native Races, vol. iii, p. 714, gives the Lord’s Prayer It is as follows: in the Piro language. Jaquie ‘*Quitatac nasaul e yapolhua tol huy quiagiana mi quiamnarinu. mugilley nasamagui hikiey quiamsamae, hikiey, hiquiquiamo quia inae, huskilley nafoleguey, gimorey, y apol y ahuley, quialiey, nasan e pomo llekey, quiale mahimnague yo se mahi kana rohoy, se teman quiennatehui mukilley, nani, nani emolley quinaroy zetasi, nasan quianatehuey pemcihipompo y, qui solaquey Amen.’’ Kuey maihua atellan, folliquitey. quifollohipuca. |