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west of t5e Little Colorado on the 2Gth, however, and camped that night about 25 miles northwest of the San Francisco Peaks, probably westerly from Mesa Butte on th'e upper drainage of Tappan Wash. His scouting parties found abundant signs of Navcjos, but could not overtake them. A captive informed him that it was a three day trip without water to the destination of the Navajos and he turned back. He took a different route on his return to the Magi village, probably striking more easterly toward the Dinne'uito below Oraibi. (Carson A Cutler, 6 D ~c. 1863, 1JA. RWO, RG 98, DNM, LS, Old Book 124 bound as 76, pp. 34-36.) Xf the Navajos fleeing before Carson's troops were Manuelito's band, they did not long remain in this Ear western area, for later reports of Gimuelito's movements show him ranging between Black Nesa md Zuni until he finally surrendered. It therefore seems un- likely that the Carson Campaign had any great lasting effect upon the composition of the Navajo population in the area west of Hopi, although a few of the refugees may well have remained among the lo- cal Navajos. As a conciusion regarding this early period, it would appear that the traditions of none of the tribes in the area can be relied upon for accurate information as to the time of settlement by their neighbors and that reliance should be given to the information ob- tained from an informant only with regard to the history of his own tribe, During the Fort Sunner period a few expeditions of citizens undertook raids to the west of Hopi. In the spring of 1864, a party of citizens attacked Navajos two days' travel beyond Hopi, pre- sumably to the west, taking stock and captives. They were then surrounded by 200 mounted Navajos and had to fight their way out, losing part of the stock and captives. (Kansanarez to Steck, 19 May 1864, NA, BIA, RG-75, NMS, LR, W-382/1864 end? In JULY, the following year, another band of privateers attacked the Navajos west of Hopi: For the.'information of the General Comdg. I have the honor to state a citizen named Juan Vigil reported to me this inst. that he in company with fifty one other citizens left Abique, N.M. on the 19th day of last month on a scout against the Nava- jos Indians, that after having passed over a grezit portion of the Navajoe country finally upon the 5th inst. they encountered at or near the San Francisco Mts. about two hundred warriors, Navajoes &-Apaches combined, with whom they had two fights. The 1st fight lasted about three hours, the 2nd, one and a half hours,
They killed nine Indians, and recaptured a Mexican boy 'of some ten years of age, and captured eighty five Ind, horses and about one thousand head of sheep. In these fights two of the citizens were pretty severely wounded. On the third day after the 2d fight when the party was divided the Indians surprised the herders (twenty two in number) and retook all their stock excepting some fifty or sixty sheep which had been killed for the subsistence of the party. After having lost their captured st-ock, the party finding their provisions growing short, and deeming it useless to campaign without a party sufficiently large to protect any property they might capture, they concluded to return home. The distance from this post to where the Abique party found the Indians is about 230 or 250 miles, being west of the Moquie Villages; - - - (Shaw to Cutler, 24 July 1865, NA, RTrJD, RG 98, Dm, LR, ~-191[ 18650). Either of these two expeditions might be the one mentioned by Victor Sagenetso. A third expedition in November and December 1865 . passed through the area, but saw few Indians. (Mexicano to Cutler, 9 Dec 1865, NA, RID, RG98, Dhql, LR, b$0151;/1865). It is significant that none of these expeditions mps-g-t,e_d any sort OT'HOP~ settlement beyond Oraibi. .- Traditional accounts of the first Hopi settlement at Moenkopi variously ascribe it to the period of the Fort Sumner exile or the time of the arrival of the first Flormons. The temporal discrepency is not so great as to be a cause for concern. The date of the initial Kormon settlement is also some what uncertain. - According to Gregory a large group of Mormons crossed from Utah in 1873, but "disastrous experiences in the Painted desert forced them to return, only one family remaining at ~oenkopi? (Gregory, Herbert E. "The Oasis of Tuba, Arizona, " Annals -- of the Association & American Geouraphers, Vol. V, p. 116) This was apparently the party encountered by John D. ,Lee on his flight southward from federal troops in June of that year. In his journal.entry for June 26th, he wrote: Reached the Navajo springs about 2 PM where I found a co, of 22 wagons of the Brethren returning from the A. 2. Mission,
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