On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and ed., with copious critical notes

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and e - Page 167

45^ INDIAN FRIENDS AND FOES. ovas, Yabipais Lipanes, and the Yabipais Natage; 8 and their enemies are the Yabipais Tejua, the Jama-jabs, and the Yumas, and further, on good grounds ( con tnucho fundamento) can I say that these Yabi­pais are also enemies of New Mexico. 9 The Yabi­pais Tejua are friends of the Yumas, of the Jamajabs, of the Chemeguabas, of the Yabipais Natage, and of the Yabipais Gilefios; 10 and are enemies of the Jalche-dunes, of the Pimas Gilenos, of the Cocomaricopas, of the Yabipais of above, and of Oraibe. The Che-meguaba nation is friendly to the Yutas and to all the Yabipais including the Tejua, as also to all the nations of the west; it is hostile to the Comanches, to the Jal-chedunes, and to the Moqui. Those of the Rio Gila • Yabipais Natage = wild Natage or Nataje Apache- a divi­sion of the Lipan or of the Llanero of Texas and New Mexico, according to varying authorities; more probably of the Lipan, who have doubtless been included in the collective term Llaneros, *. *., " plains people" or " plains Indians," the Apaches Vaqueros of other writers, the Querechos of Coronado's narra­tors ( 1541). The Natage or Nataje are now known only by the name, which according to Gatschet is probably derived from no* ton, nante, or nantan, " chief." See note " beyond.- F. W. H. • The scholiast notes in the margin: " Se sabe esto por las hostilidades del Nuevo Mexico "- the actual hostilities in New Mexico warranted GarceV statement. " Yabipais Gilenos are the Apaches of the Gila: see the Apache note beyond. Here as elsewhere it is evident that Garc6s applied the term Yabipais to any and all " wild" In­dians. It is no more specific than Chichimecos.