While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
B- New
Mexico Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Baguacat. An unidentified pueblo of New Mexico in 1598.
Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined., xvi, 103, 1871.
Barrancas (Las Barrancas, Span.: 'the ravines').
Formerly a small village, apparently of the
Piros, on the Rio Grande, near
Socorro, N. Mex; evidently abandoned during the Pueblo revolt of 1680.
Bejuituuy (village of the rainbow). A former pueblo of
the
Tigua near the s. limit of their habitat, on the Rio Grande, at the present
Los Lunas, N. Mex.
Belen. A village on the w. bank of the Rio Grande in
Valencia co., N. Mex., and the seat of the Spanish mission of Nuestra Señora,
with 107 inhabitants in 1805 and 133 in 1809. Like Abiquiu and Tome it was
apparently established as a refuge for Genizaros, or redeemed captive Indians,
of whom a few were at Belen in 1766. It is now a Mexican settlement, The ruins
of the old Spanish church may still be traced, (F. W. H.)
Bocoyna A pueblo of civilized Tarahumare on the E.
slope of the Sierra Madre, in lat. 28º 25′,
long. 107º 15′,
w. Chihuahua, Mexico.
Bulitzequa. A
former pueblo of the Jemez, in New Mexico,
the exact site of which is not known.
Bandelier in Arch. Inst, Papers, iv, 207,
1892.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
