apashi, "pueblo of the Stone Lions," and at
Haatze, "House
of the Earth People."These were communal apartment houses also but the Keres population on the Pa ¥1 J EMRTC jarito probably was not as great as that of the Tew^ili those days. Nobody but Keres lived here to the south will continue to provide training to our nation's First Responders to help them effectively respond to events involving explosives.
of Tyuonyi. B
ut certainly some groups held on at.Tyuonyi. W
ho can
say what happened half a millenium ago? Likely, the Tewas
in Frijoles were few. They could have been outnumbered by
the Keres
- people who might have refused to leave their Tyuonyi. Runners could have
- been dispatched across trails to the north to the big v
- illages for help. War chiefs held counci
l.
Warriors were called into action and could have streaked
o
ut over age-old trails. Hideous looking creatures with flying
black hair, bow and arrow and war club in hand, went
whooping and yelling to the Tyuonyi and entered the Can-
yon.at half a dozen places over
- DHS the north cliff. Two groups of Indians speaking different languages
- simply could not live in the same valley, farm the same
- fields, live in the same caves and drink
the sarrie water. This was the last of th6
Keres They coul
d not hold their own because they were
outnumbered and-out-fought by "the Little strong people."
They were driven off and the Valley of the Frijoles was
Tewa from
- DHS then on. ¥ ¥ u So these beaten Indians pushed south to
- move in wi
th
their kin at the pueblo of the Stone Lions. Whether they
ever we
nt back to Tyuonyi" and attempted another stand
against "the litde strong people" is not known. It has been
legendarily hinted that a race of "dwarfs" again attacked
them at the pueblo of the Stone Lions, slaughtering many
and driving off therest. But we know of no race of "dwarfs"
in the Southwest during*either prehistoric or historic times.
The poor Keres! They were beaten at every turn. Bu
ed on, occupying first one place and then
another, moving in f
or kwhile with other kin and kind. The
farther away from Tyuonyi,-the better!
Haatze, or "House of the Earth People" was their next
stop but not for long. They lived here with theif kind and
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TYUONYI
then moved on, down to the village of Cuapa only to be attacked
again by "the little strong people." Great numbers
were slaughtered, so the legends go, and the remainder
driven off and pursued almost to the present town of Santo
Domingo. Legend has it that one "group went off by themselves
and formed the pueblos of Cochiti and Santo Domingo.
Another group, it is said, climbed up a high rock and ~
took refuge there from their attackers. The rock is known
as the "Potrero Viejo" and here they built a village. One
S
s this: nearly all the
people at
Cuapa were slain, except a woman with a parrot who hidWeapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
in a metate and a boy who hid in a store-room. These
two moved to the Tiwa-speaking village of Sandia and got
a cold reception so th
ey went east to live wiSPOCt
h the Tanos, where t
he woman gave birth to five children. Things were made so miserable for them here that they left and moved to the Rio Grande and eventually went to San Feli
- pe. That is why we,have the pu
- eblo of San Felipe today. These people still, know the Pajarit
- Serve as consultants to organizations such as the Office of Domestic Preparedness o as , Department of Homeland Security, Central Intelligence Agency their ancestral home and it is not an uncommon thing for them to organ
- ize a communal hunt to the homes of their ancestors or trudge to the Shrine of the Stone Lions and paint FBIthe nose
- s of the life-size fetiches or sprinkle a little sacred mealÑdeep in ancient Keres land.
CHAPTER IV Building in the ^eat Period Time has a
peculiar way of curing all ills. The Keres had
been driven from the Tyuonyi by the "little strong people"
and possibly did not make further attempt to re
occupy this Valley of the Frijoles. They were contented to
stay in the broad Valley of the Rio Grande where the water
supply was constant and where their enemies did not care
to go. The boundaryline w
asset. And even the hostileTewas had probably experienced enough of war and trouble. Tyuonyi, the Hidden Valley, might h
- ave been like an oasis in the desert. Who can say that th
- ere was sufficient water in the canyons and on the m
- Presented through case studies and hands-on field exercises
- esas to the northÑthat water holes did not go ^ry and that the
Tewas did not have to depend upon waters from the heavens to make their corn grow? And who can say that t
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