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Show IQOO] SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS 183 present there are only twenty- seven inhabited pueblos, with a population of about ten thousand; and but few of these are supposed to be the same as those found by the Spanish explorers. 1 Many attempts have been made to identify the sites of the villages known to these early travellers, but most of them are still in doubt, except Acoma and the Hopi towns. The present pueblos, though exhibiting practically the same culture, are distributed between four different linguistic stocks: the Tanoan, the Keresan, the Zunian, and the Shoshonean. The Tanoan is the largest, comprising twelve villages: Taos, Picuris, Tesuque, Santa Clara, San Juan, San Ildefonso, Jemez, Sandia, Nambe, Isleta ( New Mexico), Isleta ( Texas), Senecu ( Mexico), and Tewa or Hano, all but the last three on the upper Rio Grande in New Mexico. Hano is one of the Hopi towns in Arizona, and was settled by people who fled from the Rio Grande for fear of Spanish vengeance after the native uprising of 1680. The seven Keresan villages are Chochiti, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Sia, Laguna, and Acoma, all situated along the Rio Grande or its tributaries and south of most of the Tanoan towns. Zuiii, the only permanently inhabited village of the Zunian stock, is farther west, near the Arizona border. Of Shoshonean stock are six of the seven 1 Bandelier, " Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico" ( Archaeological Institute of America, Papers, I., 1- 33). |