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Show 370 LEADING Governor FACTS Otermin OF NEW remained MEXICAN in camp at San PUEBLO HISTORY Lorenzo for several months waiting for orders to undertake a re-conquest of the country he had been forced *"° to abandon, and it was not THE ENTRADA OF OTERMIN IN 1681 until November 5th, 1681, that his second entrada was begun. It is recorded that there was much opposition to this attempt on his part, there being two parties among the soldiers, officers, colonists, and even the friars. Otermin experienced great difficulty in making proper preparations when Catiti burst with a report like the sound of a gun, and was immediately carried off by the devil. Tu-pa-ti was also disposed of in the same manner. The Yutas, as soon as they learned of the misfortunes of the Spaniards, waged ceaseless war upon the Jemez, Taos, and Picuriés, and especially on the Tehuas, upon whom they committed great ravages. They were also afflicted with hunger and pestilence. Niel, in his Apuntes, 103, 6, says that for seven years it rained ashes while for nine years no water fell, and the streams all dried up. The Tompiros were exterminated; very few Tiguas and Jemez survived; somewhat more of the Tehuas, Taos, and Pecos were left; and the Queres, protected by the walls of Santa Fé, suffered least of all. Finally the Sacrifice of a virgin restored water to the bed of the Rio Grande, and thus life was saved, and their ‘‘stubborn, insolent apostasy’’ was confirmed. Niel also tells a curious story to the effect that of the Tanos, after the revolt, only half remained to quarrel with the other nations for Supremacy, while the others, 4,000 men, women, and children, went away with their Spanish plunder to preserve themselves and let their cattle increase. They went via Zufi to Moqui, and having induced that people to give them a home, gradually gained possession of the country and towns, reducing the original Moqui to complete subjection, extending their conquests far to the southwest and seating their young king, Trasquillo, on the throne at Oraibe. They brought with them many who had served the Spaniards, and learned from them all they could, instead of avoiding everything Spanish, like the other nations. Certain linguistic and other pe- culiarities of the different pueblos are sufficient, if not to give plausibilty to REBELLION Leiba, Nicolas Rodriguez, Juan and Diego Lucero de Godoy, Luis de Granillo, Alonso del Rio, Sebastian de Herrera, Diego Lopez Sembrano, Luis de Quintana, Pedro de Marquez, Roque de Madrid, Diego Dominguez, Ignacio and Cristoval Vaca, Felipe Romero, Pueblo de los Tanos y (de) Galisteo, puesto desde el alzmiento en las casas reales de dicha villa.’’ Mr. Bandelier says that the Relacion Anonima was undoubtedly written by Fr. Escalante, who had before him the complete journal of De Vargas. The De Vargas journal, only fragments of which are now available, does not contain a description of Santa Fé as it existed in 1692 and 1693. Escalante in his letter to Padre Morfi, says: ‘‘En Santa Fé estaban fortificados los Tanos de Galisteo;’’ and there is also a description of the Tanos village at Santa Fé in the Autos del Cabildo de Santa Fé, Ms., 1703. 879 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, p. 186, says: ‘Many believed that the opportunities for missionary work and colonization were better in the south than in the north; they had lost their property and their families or friends, ox-carts and pack mules. massacre; and they were in favor had not yet recovered of utilizing from the funds and ‘‘Entro the terror forces lately en el of the received 371 Ayeta, the procurador-general. Another friar was Antonio Guerra. The sargentos mayores and captains were Juan Dominguez, Pedro José Tercera Serie, p. 139, we find: INDEPENDENCE for this expedition, and in order to complete his outfit, he was compelled to ask assistance of the friars at Hl Paso. The Franciscan order supplied him with two thousand fanegas of corn, two thousand beef-cattle, besides ammunition, wagons, and other necessaries for the camp and his army. He had great trouble securing arms for the expedition. The old armor had become almost worthless and new armor was made of ox-hides. The inhabitants of the city of Santa Fé were filled with a desire to revenge themselves upon the Indians. On the 18th of September **° they addressed a petition to Otermin requesting that their families be permitted to remain at San Lorenzo, and furnished with supplies during their absence. They set forth that the nearest point where corn could be procured was at the Casas Grandes, eighty leagues distant, where only two persons planted and that not more than two fanegas could be had there. The prayer of the petitioners was granted. A number of friars accompanied this second expedition. Otermin was the general-in-chief, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, lieutenant-general, Francisco Javier was the military secretary, and Fr. Francisco this story, at least to make it worth preserving here. Arricivita, Cron. Seraf., 199, says that the Tanos of Galisteo intrenched themselves at Santa Fé. See ante, this volume, p. 379. See also Bandelier, Final Report, Part ii, p. 90, who Says, speaking of Santa Fé, the capital, that ‘“they [the Tehuas] also acknowledged that a Tanos village stood on the spot; but this may probably refer to the pueblo constructed after 1680 by the Tanos from Galisteo, on the ruins of the old ‘palace’ of Santa Fé.’’ In the Relacion Anonima, AND Narvaez, Francisco Anaya, Francisco Madrid, Antonio Marquez, Gonzalo Paredes, Salvador Olguin, Antonio Dominguez, Antonio de Avalos, Don José Chavez, and José Padilla. The armed force consisted of both infantry and cavalry; there were 146 soldiers, with 112 Indian to strengi + So i pa allies, 975 horses, iti ony Seo together with a supply train of i an ig conquest to a pout, in the cause, but if so the viceroy’s instructions left him no choice.| Captain Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, who had served in New Mexico from his boyhood, — retreated from Isleta with Garcia, and had succeeded the latter as lieutenant general, was leader of the opposition, and legal proceedings had, on that ak This appears In the fiscal’s report Count, been begun against him and others. of 1682.—N. Mex. Docs., an experimental and apostasy by ways, and would 880 Davis, W. Ms., 1623-1704. Most, if not all the friars, favored entrada at least, hoping that the natives, prompted to revolt the devil and a few sorcerers, had now seen the error of their be eager for peace and pardon.’’ : W. H., The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, p. 308. |
