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Show 428 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY of Zui, through Padre Irazabal, obtained the license and were given They found the Moquis eager for peace and alliance with letters. the Zufiis, but the controlling element under the chief of Oraibe had no desire for the friendship of the Spaniards. In the month of March, 1715, a Moqui appeared at the capital with favorable reports, and was sent back with assurances of good will. Later on, in May, a chief of Oraibe came to make further investigations, reporting ‘< First, 485 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, p. 222: The military favored should the Christian Indians be deprived of firearms? such a policy, but the friars opposed it, both to avoid offence and afford the converts protection; and the governor at last ordered the arms taken away & cept in the case of natives especially trustworthy. Second, should the converts be allowed to paint themselves and wear skin caps, thus causing themselves 1? be suspected of crimes committed by gentiles, or enabling them to comm offences attributed to gentiles? Governor Flores and his officers, with some 0 the padres, were in favor of forbidding the custom; but the rest of the friars took an opposite view, holding that no Christian Indian had ever been known 1 use his paint for a disguise to cover crime.’’ JF o ano Apery Jo ‘adnye pens Byueg de guerra were held at Santa Fé on their account. It appears that in June, 1713, an Indian named Naranjo was refused permission to visit the Moquis, but in December two natives ‘aq as usual, were constantly causing trouble and no less than five juntas OSS and in addition, the Faraon tribe of Apaches were warned against In 1714, the Utes and Taos the commission of further depredations. were engaged in constant warfare, but quiet was restored through the efforts of Governor Mogollon, who compelled a restitution of all stolen property. The Navajé again raided the Jemez and in a campaign conducted by Captain Madrid the Navajé was forced to retire to his home in the northwest. A junta of civil, military, and missionary authorities was held for the purpose of deliberating upon two questions which seemed to be of prime importance. One, whether the Christian Indians should be allowed to carry firearms; two, whether the converted natives It does not appear just should be permitted to paint themselves. how these questions were determined by the junta, although the frailes seemed to have been divided in their opinions upon the two This junta was held on the 6th day of July, 1714. subjects. In the following year, Captain Juan Paez Hurtado, with a force of 250 men, conducted a campaign against the Apaches on the Colorado The Moquis, river, but nothing worthy of note was accomplished. jodeyy ists, and Indian allies, defeated the Navajés in their own country, |
