By David Brugge - Arizona Department of Water Resources

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july 6th, a Navajo named "1 ihZt!a-asr>-c_13"4~. two compnion stopped
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at the camp on th=? 'wav to trade in Utah. (ibid., p. 267) Finally,
'on July 7th, hc identifies a Paiute as named =,who hclpci him
irrigate. Not until July 7th, did he intimate that Shew had crops 1
of his own at the same place. (Ibid. p. 268)
On the 9th, Lee made an entry of particular interest:
---Today Shew, one of the Natives, infolrmcd3 me that the
Niites at the agency did not warntj the Mormons to settle at
the Noc"ncrop[a] ; that they had written to governnent t rol pre-
vent it, and that Jbcob would not be ab [le3 to tend the land
at the lcloencropa another year without paying horses, cat rtle3 ;
clothing &c. & c.; that thCe3 y were putting the oribas and
Navajoes up to objeclt] to our settling among them &c. (Ibid.
p. 268).
On the 10J:.h, he noted rain "in the direction of the Navajo
and oriva country:' (Ibid., p. 269) This has led som? researchers to
conclude that no Navajos were near Pioenkopi at the time Lee stayed
there. On the 12th, he recorded that Shew and his family moved to'
"Upper Noencropa, " (Ibid) , apparently meaning Willow Springs. On the
16th, he dib not irrigate, noting that "To day the Indians had the
water to eregate their crops. " Jast who these Indians were besides
Shew and his family is not stated, but it seems likely that there
were more people farming at Moenave than those Lee identifies hy name.
That Lee's farm was at Moenave is made quite certain by, p %ention on
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the same clay that j.t was 8 miles to Tuba's place. He Moen- 11
kopi che following day and description of "the Farm of the Native,
,including oraves, - Navajoes and Piutes" clearly shows that ~avajo~wer
farming there at that ti.me. (Ibid.)
Tficr? day by day account continues, generally adding little as to
the exact location of the Indians of various tribes. He recoxded the
name of Tuba's wife, Te:Llas saki, --- oil the 183 of Jury, (Ibid,, p. 272)
On the Lath, he mentioned a Navajo chief, "AS~-~aash-na, known as
John." (Ibid., p. 278) . On August 16th, Lee visited ~oenkopi and mentioned
the name of another Hopi there, Taltee. (Ibid., p. 286) On the
19th' of the mo~th, he made mention of another-~aiute, s different man
than Shew, who came from "Upper Moencroppa" and used the water at Moenave
tc irrigate crops. (Ibid., p. 287). Beginning on August 21st, Lee
no longer referred to his place as "Moencroppa," but wrote a name that
more resembles Moenave, spelling it varioiasly, ~owee%yabb~, + Moweeyawba,
Mowe Yauba, Moweabba, etc. (Xbid., p. 287 ff.)