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208 MESA FOLK OF HOPILAXD
blood was shed and the Indian leaders were exiled to
California for a year or so. It is a curious circum
stance that in our county where the past is forgotten
so soon there should exist a people who remember and
take warning from the events of almost four centuries
ago.
On the rocks below Walpi there is a curiously
carved record which has a good bit of war history
connected with it. Hear Anowita, the Warrior Chief,
tell the story :
Very when ago [long time] the Ute and Apache
were always wishing to kill the Good People. They
were very bad. At that time there was no trail up
the great rocks to Hopi-Jci "Walpi." The people
climbed up and down a long ladder which could be
drawn up at night. I can show you where the ladder
stood. It was bad for the people to be frightened all
the time, so they sent messengers to ask the Tewa
from the Great River to come and dwell at Walpi to
fight their enemies. The Tewa came, many families
of them ; there was a battle at a spring north of Walpi
and the Tewa killed as many Utes as there are marks
cut in the rock below the Gap. The Ute did not come
back again. The Tewa were given lands and springs to
the eastward and their village was set at the head of the
trail near the Gap so that they could guard the mesa.
This is the origin of the Tewa town of Hano on
the East Mesa, through which everyone must go who
seeks an easy entrance into Walpi. One cannot avoid
thinking that the recorder of the battle of the spring
was not sparing with his list of dead Ute, which he