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Show SPANISH RULE, 1700 TO 1822 441 Christian faith, and great was their joy upon being notified of the royal order by which the viceroy was compelled to render them all the assistance possible. Thus, the Franciscans, who were known as padres azules, won their fight for supremacy.*°° The Franciscans endeavored to make converts of the Navajés, but in this they made a complete failure.*** They did not establish missions in the Navajé country proper but in the region of Acoma, at Cebolleta **? and Encinal, in which were installed the frailes Juan de Lezaun and Manuel Bermejo. During the rule of Governor Codallos a fierce battle had been 460 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mezico, p. 246: ‘‘Meanwhile the king was induced to change his mind and to believe that he had been grossly deceived respecting the geographical situation of Moqui, the hostility and power of its people, and the vain efforts of the soldiers and friars to reduce them. Surely if two missionaries could go alone, without a cent of expense to the royal treasury and bring out 441 converts, the Moquifios could neither be so far off from New Mexico, nor so confirmed in their apostasy, as had been rep- resented.’’ Ibid, p. 247: ‘‘The Navajés attracted still more attention than the Moquifios. Padres Delgado and Irigoyen started in March, 1744, by way of Jemez for the Navaj6 country and found the Indians apparently eager to become Christians and receive missionaries, 4,000 of them being ‘interviewed.’ ’’ 461 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, p. 248, says: ‘* All went well for a brief time, but in the spring of 1750 there was trouble, whieh Lieutenant-governor Bernardo Antonio de Bustamante, with the vice-custodio, Padre Manuel de San Juan Nepomuceno de Trigo, went to investigate. Then the real state of affairs became apparent. Padre Menchero had been liberal with his gifts, and still more so with promises of more; hence his success in bringing Navajés to Cebolleta. But they said they had not received half the gifts promised, and their present padres — against whom they had no ee wee too poor to make any gifts at all. What, then, had they gained by the ¢ or At any rate, pueblo life and Christianity had no charms for them, and they —_ determined not to remain. They would still be friends of the Spaniards an trade with them and would always welcome the friars, who might even nee and teach their children; perhaps the little ones might grow up to like a different life, but as for themselves, they had been born free, like the deer, to g0 where they pleased, and they were too old to learn new ways. Indeed they = @ very sensible view of the situation. Thus stood the matter in 1750 and : 1e avaj6é conversion was a failure.’’ See also letters of PP. Delgado and Irigoyen, in N. Mex. Doc., Ms., 692-704-777, ete. 402 Hodge, (Span. ‘tender place A onion’). Indians, of American Handbook 2. p. 225: oer oT river in the northeast on Pojuate alencia county, New Mexico, at which, in 1746, a temporary settlement 0 or 500 Navaj6 by Father was made Juan M. Menchero. A Pees ao 4 wee lished there in 1749, but in the following year the Navajé grew tired of sedentary life, and Cebolleta, together with Encinal, which was established at the ra time, was abandoned. olleta was refused Cebolleta mountain Settlement, ’? 1804 In a request from the Navajo by the Spanish authorities. and the N. Mex. Doc., 1090-1134: Cebolleta land grant to re-settle . It is now a —— take : their name ; trom = yer t The troubles of 1750, with official record of the SALAD NYA |
