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Show It is into the kiva until all were eiter burned or suffocated to death. said tat there is also some evidence of burning and fighting in the town, The surviving women and children were probably dis in its destruction. other villages. Thus was tre Catholic "Christianity" the tributed through out at that date. among the Hopi.s largely, perhaps entirely, st.amped We have already spoken of the complete failure of mi.sai.onar-Le s of the Jesuit Order tointroduce their work among the puebLos of northern Arizona, in accordance with their appointment in 1719, and the re-instptement of the 'Father Eusebi.e Kino,e.::Jesud::t,'had been very Fr-ancd scans in the 1760 decade. successful in Pimeria Alta and northern l'iexico---it was he who had constructed and stocked t!1e San Xavier Nission, a few miles southwest of Tucson, in 1700, alo with several other missions before ad after tha qate. We have also _ , - "'entioned above Father nChristianity" among e to r-e-Lnt roduce Franciscan, whose "-' unsuccessful. Hopi,s in 1776 'was complet Garces, the , a Escalante, returning from his effort to find a northern route to hostility and difficulty of crossing the Colorado River on V1E- 35th parallel route, was also in Oraibi and perhaps t.he other Hopi, villages in November, 1776. Ide may note that he suggested reduction of te Hopis by rorce of arms, as a means of making them more receptive of Escalante evidently considered , according to his report, nChristianity". the that both H?vasupai and Noqui peopl.es generally might not be ill-disposed toward the Holy Fath; but ther chiefs woul.d have nothing to do with it. Father Monterey because of Indian .! Anza, appointed gestion of Father Governor of New Mexico in 1777, possibly acting on the sug Escalante, eame to Hopiland in 1780---just lOq years after Rebellion,-- Qth a military force. Military action, however, entirely unnecessary. According to reprts, only 79S Hopis had sur vived an eycessively severe scourge of a.nal.Ic-poxj and perhaps taking advantage of the opportunity for looting, Navajoe s and APaches had taken all but 300 of their 30,000 sheep; and for the seven Hopi vi Ll.ages, only 5 horses and no -cattle remained. Governor Anza, of course, offerred them relief, and also the oppor-tuni.t.y t.o embrace Christianity. The chiefs refused both---sayine:; they had nothing to 'ive in return for the urelief"; and that, since it apPEared they were doomed anyway, they would prefer to die in their own faith. The chiefs, however, consented for such of their tribesmen as wished to do so, might be removed; and about 30 families were settled in t1e vicinity of Laguna, New t1exico. (Note the proud spirit and the resignation of the redmen, when, as they apparently thought, actually facing death itself). As we 0P.ri farther the History of the Litt le C:)l orado River Valley, we will find .again devastating epidemic among theHopis---I have wondc r-ed if theNa.vajoesbecause of their scatterred living and outdoor life, were less vulnwrab l.e to sweeping di.seaeea}. the Great seemed Origin of Indians of the Little Colorado Valley ---T!,e Hopi.s there is much conjecture and very little certainty in this matter. suggested th2t the Hopi,s originally came from the Rio Grande, Valley, There is some inferenee perhaps from Jemez or its vicinity; but ti6i,is uncertain. of this source with the Lnnab'l t.ant s of First J.'lesa; and it is certain, if stories are correct, that the greater portion of t.he peopl,e of this Me sa originated from the Rio Grande VaLley in historic times. After the re-conquest of De Vargas, in It seems It, has been , of 1680, the T,alpia,ns, then probably atop Walpi is now located, must have felt their weakness a.e:ainst enemies---the Navajoe s Apaches, and Utes, as well as the Spaniards. Negotiations were' entered into with a perhaps small village some distas the case may have anc e north of Szn t a Fe ---kinsmen or friends, ceen---offering 1692, f:)blowing the Great Rebellion the cliffs ere the village of , them room for tleir homes farming, as' an atop the mesa, and lands if':mrrtheir flocks and perhaps incentive to unite ''lith them in Hopi.ja nd The village accepted; , r . |
