The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 130
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly
Queres nation. The only mention made in the documentary
sources of 1680 concerning the part taken by the distant Zufii
pueblos is the statement of Otermin to the effect that the Indian
besiegers of Santa Fe told him that the Spanish inhabitants of
Zufii were all dead.'
At the Moqui towns, in Arizona, inhabited by a tribe of In-
dians similar in their habits and customs to the Pueblos of New
Mexico, though speaking a Shoshonean dialect, and who. had re-
fused on a former occasion to take part in another planned revolt
headed by the pueblo of Taos, the revolutionary influence was
also felt, and it resulted in the death of the four resident mis-
sionaries, and the destruction of the Christian churches.3
Thus it will be seen how extensive was the revolt started by the
northern pueblos of the province of New Mexico, who had not
only these tribes as their allies, but also the inhabitants of other
districts distant as far as two hundred leagues from the villa.'
7. The Condition of the Province Following the Outbreak in the
Pueblos
The condition of the province of New Mexico now beggared
description. From Taos to Isleta, a distance of over fifty leagues,
the whole country, with the exception of Santa F6 was devastated
and depopulated. The estancias and haciendas of the Spanish
settlers had been robbed both of household goods and of the
horses and cattle of the fields, while many of the houses had been
destroyed by fire. The churches, where not burned, had been
stripped of their sacred vessels, robbed of their ornaments, and in
every way as completely and foully desecrated as Indian sacri-
lege and indecency could suggest,5 while the sacred vestments had
"Auto (de Otermln)," in Auttos tocantes, 32. Hodge (Handbook of
American Indians, part 2, 1018) mentions one missionary only as being
killed there, and Vetaneur (Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio
de Mewico, 100) says the padre at Aguico, one of the Zuffi pueblos,
escaped.
2"Declarasion de Pedro naranjo de nation queres," in Autos Pertene-
oientes, 27.
8Fewkes, in Handbook of American Indians, part 1, 561.
'Auto of the Cabildo of Santa F6, in Auttos tocantes, 73.
", . . . en el Pueblo de sandia, se hallaron Vnos Santos corporales
eserementados y dos calises dentro de vna petaca, eseondidos entre130
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