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Show SPANISH RULE, 1700 TO 1822 419 Within a year after the visit of the Oraibe chieftain to Santa Fé the Moquis of the pueblos other than those of Aguatuvi fell upon the people of that pueblo and utterly deDESTRUCTION OF THE stroyed it for the reason that the inhabitants PUEBLO OF AGUATUVI had received the missionary, Fr. Garaicoechea, and had repaired or rebuilt the convent and mission which had been destroyed in the rebellion of a few years previous. All of the Moquis had given in their allegiance to Spain anew, in 1692, and Cubero, regarding them as vassals and. subjects of the Spanish crown, would entertain none of the proposals **? made by Espeleta. The submission of the pueblos at the close of the seventeenth century was comparatively complete. The power of the Spaniard was everywhere in evidence. During the entire period of one hundred years which followed, the pueblos gave little, if any, trouble. They were demoralized, tired of revolts, which seemingly availed them nothing and always resulted in disaster. There were some local troubles,*** but nothing of a serious character disturbed the Spaneverything that was asked. With these false promises they were suffered to re- his point. turn, and Cubero indulged the hope that he had completely gaineda Christianized ‘‘In the meantime Ahua-tuyba had virtually become again In the last days of the year 1700, or in the beginning of 1701, the pueblo, Moquis of the other pueblos fell upon the unsuspecting village at night. The men were mostly killed, stifled in their estufas, it is said; the women and children were dragged into captivity, and the houses were burnt. The exact date of this butchery I have not been able to find, as nearly all the papers concerning the Santa Fé; administration of Cubero have disappeared from the archives at has belonged to the class of ruined historical Ahua-tuyba time P ee fant eblos. is unique. It was as 2 Relacion, p. 179. The proposition made by Espeleta todos los Moquifos, y ‘‘Respondié Espeleta, que el venia 4 nombre de pews: Je estos en consulta general, habian resuelto admitir que entrasen los religiosos los parvulos a bautizar whos, entrando el primer y el siguiente bantismos, de pueblo cada de Ja provincia; en sucesivamente sels afio el primer pueblo, y regrasandose concluidos los afio al segundo pueblo, y de este modo entrando y seis afios, y concluidos estos niendo hasta Hegar 4 Oraibe y completar los dichosy admitirian de asiento a los : modo dicho se rendiridn todos los Moquifios Ministros, ”? reference Bancroft thinks that this slaughter never occurred, but detailed Mr. 1722. made to it in a Parecer of the clergy of New Mexico, bearing date There existed at Santa stated. ‘ a destruction of Aguatuvi is explicitly the occurrence, and — :s ‘toll 1713, a collection of testimonies taken on puo a ows: “*Yten vn Quaderno de autos sobre la notisia de lo susedido en : Pedro de Morales en pe: fojag > *guatubi de la proa de Moqui autorisadas de se hallan en e fh mentioned in Ynbentario de los Papeles que ies MP. 428 B del Cabildo justizia reximiento de esta villa de Santa Fé, 1718, 925-226, says: pp. Mesxico, “Tn th ers ke Eke, History of Arizona and New quarters, restis In “"e spring of 1702 there were alarming rumors from various |