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Show ee oP ws Bacall 4 * le 4 % dtl are $—% ee ies ee eS ara ee ee ee 40 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY action. The entire company then proceeded to the copper mines, where three fat beeves were killed for food for the Indians. After they had eaten and were in excellent humor, the head chief made a present to the elder Pattie of a tract of land ten miles square, lying on a river about three miles from the mines. The tract was one very favorable for cultivation and the Mexicans had attempte d several times to grow crops of grain upon it, but the Indians had regularly killed the cultivators and destroyed the grain. The Indians were told that even though the land was Pattie’s he would be compelled to employ Mexicans in order to cultivate it, and that those thus en- ployed must be considered within the terms of the peace that had been made. With a look of great firmness the chief replied that he was a man of truth and had given his word and that no one em- ployed on that land or belonging to the mines would be molested and that the terms of the treaty would never be violated. Con- tinuing, he said that he wanted to be at peace with the Americans because he had ascertained that they never showed any disposition - ag except in battle; that they had proof of this because the two Indians who had been captured had not been executed, but one had been sent to invite him and his people to make peace, which he was glad to do. The sentiment entertained by the Indians as evidenced in the story told by the Patties was almost universal among the tribes ee al a EE we as Mt Pe Ae er a te er A Tt | tlt SeateeSRSe > *-9--@- bd eo er etCeeT eT REASONS FOR APA CHE HosTILITY TO MEXICA NS See é a ek oe ee [on ad ee ee lt cdl apn hy Nl elt ll Ser 4 ra lePe aeace eee le Sr ae ee RS nat Apache had no respect for the Spaniard or the Mexican, nor had the sedentaty tribes. Careful search does not reveal ay documentary evidence which can in any manner sustain the feelings which were entertained by the Indians other than the massacre a Tiguex, in the time of Coronado, and the murder of the Navajés at the pueblo of Cochit; after 1823. These feelings, however, welt mutual. The Spaniard and the Mexican regarded the Indian, par ticularly the Apache, as a barbarian with whom treaties could not be fo pte oe New Mexico. The Navajé, the Ute, and the “eh early in the history of the country “<a only “pood?? 4 : er adopted by the American almost constantae tribes many ei , ts Shia se nip _— woe oe epanichaeiilea ae were made and broken, settler, that ~ i] and finally during eet |