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Final report of investigations among the Indians of the southwestern United States, carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885
Final report of investigations among the Indians of the southwestern United States carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885 Author:Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of North America History / Native American Social Science / Archaeology Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR rep... more »rint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. THE COUNTRY OF THE TANOS. ANTONIO DE ESPEJO in 1582 called the Tanos " Maguas," and described a part of their country as follows: " There they have no river, neither have they running brooks nor springs of which they make use. They have much maize and many fowls of the country, and supplies like those of the province spoken of before, in great abundance. This province borders upon the country of the cows called the cows of Cibola." ' A truer and at the same time more concise description of the basin of Galisteo, which constitutes the principal portion of the former Tanos country, could hardly be framed. The Galisteo plain, however, constituted only the eastern portion or half of the range of the southern Tehuas, or, asthey are called, the T'han-u-ge, or Tanos. Those Indians also claimed the environs of Santa Fe, and the ruins of their villages are scattered as far as San Pedro in the south, the Rio Grande valley in the west, and the mesa of Pecos in the east. 1 Kelacion del Viagt (Doc. de Indias, vol. xv. p. 114). Expedient! y Rcla- cion (Ibid., p. 176). " A qui no alcanzan rio, ni tiencn arroyos que corren y fuen- tes de que se siruen, tienen mucho maiz y gallinas de la tierra, y bastimentos y otras cosas como in la provincia dicha antes de esta, en mucha abundancia; esta provincia confina con las vacas que llaman de Cibola." The "provincia dicha antes de esta " was that ...« less