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Show 332 ADMIRABLE NOVELTY- UTES NOTED. Indian chanted the whole bendito 14 with little difference in intonation from that in which it is chanted in the missions. I admired this novelty, and presented him with a string of beads, asking him eagerly { con gusto) who had taught it to him. He gave me to understand that the Yutas 15 his neighbors knew it, 14 The Benedictus, beginning in Spanish " Bendito y alabado sea," etc. Benediction is certainly better than malediction, and I think a mode of treatment like that upon which Garces was intent was preferable to such as sometimes resulted from education in the language of the whites. Thus, Beale says that in his time the Mojaves had learned enough English to salute a stranger with " God damn my soul eyes! How de do?" " The Utas or Utes, of the Shoshonean stock, after whom the State of Utah was named. They are divided into numerous bands or subtribes, whose habitat extended over southern Colorado and Utah, and into northern New Mexico and Arizona. On the upper Rio Grande in New Mexico the Utes came in contact with the pueblo tribes, particularly the Tigua Indians at Taos and Picuris, of whom Garces here speaks. Of the two villages mentioned Taos is the more important; it is situated on the Rio de Taos, a tributary of the Rio Grande, about 60 miles north by east from Santa Fe. Its inhabitants within historic times have had several conflicts with the Utes, who have left their impress on the tribe; indeed the Taos people resemble the Utes more closely than they do their near kindred in Picuris or in Sandia and Isleta farther southward. Taos was the seat of the mission of San Geronimo, established in the seventeenth century; it was also the scene of a rebellion in 1847, which resulted in the killing of Governor Bent, but the revolt was quelled a month later and the leaders executed by Col. Sterling Price. The Indians lost 150 killed, the American force 7 killed |