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!
Population.-The statistics of population of the Pueblo tribes are not
satisfactory, owing to the unreliability of some of the estimates, especially in
the earliest period of Spanish exploration, due in part to the desire to
exaggerate the Indian population in order to attract greater attention to the
country from Spain and Mexico. The table on the opposite page, compiled from
various sources, gives the population of the various Pueblos from 1630 to the
present time. In some instances the figures are approximate estimates only, and
may be regarded as little more than broad guesses; at other times the count was
evidently closely made.
As will be seen, the table does not include the Piro
and Tigua pueblos of the lower Rio Grande in Texas and Chihuahua, nor the Hopi
(q. v.) of Arizona. In 1725 the total population was given at 9,747; in 1749,
11,942; in 1793, 7,455, and in 1794, 9,495. These figures include the lower Rio
Grande villages. In 1885 the Indians of 19 pueblos of New Mexico, including
Zuni, were reported to number 7,762. In 1887 the population of all the New
Mexican pueblos was given as 8,357. From these figures it is evident that the
Pueblo population has varied little during the last two centuries.
Following is a list of pueblos, now extinct or Mexicanized, which are as yet
either unidentified or unclassified:
Acacagua
Acoti (" birthplace of Montezuma")
Atica
Aychini
Baguacat
Casa Blanca
Casa del Eco
Casa Grande
Casa Montezuma
Castildavid
Chettrokettle
Chichilticalli
Cristone
Hungopavi
Kinnazinde
Kintyel
Nogales
Pagmi
Paguemi
Peñasco Blanco
Pequen
Poblazon
Pueblo Alto
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo del Arroyo
Pueblo de los Silos
Pueblo Pintado
Pueblo Viejo
San Rafael de los Gentiles
Sargarria
Siemas
Triati
Una Vida
Urraca
Viní
Wejegi
Xutis
Yncaopi
Ytriza
For pueblos classified by tribes, see Hopi,
Jemez,
Keresan, Piro, Tano, Tewa,
Tigua, Zuni.
