of Taos and Picuris, the inhabitants of which spoke a dialectic
variation of the Tigua language of the south. The Tehuas also approached
the Rio Grande quite near, at what is called La Bajada; and in about the
same latitude, including the former village at Santa Fe, began that
branch of the Tehuas known as Tanos, whose settlements ranged from north
of Santa Fe as far as the eastern plains and southward to Tajique, where
their territory bordered that of the eastern Tiguas.

The Rio Grande Queres extended also as far west as the Jemez river; and
north of them, on the same stream, another linguistic group, the Jemez,
had established themselves and built several villages of considerable
size. East of the Rio Grande and southwest-ward from Santa Fe another
branch of the Jemez occupied the northern valley of the Rio Pecos.

The main interest in this distribution of the Rio Grande Pueblos lies in
the fact that it establishes a disruption and division of some of these
groups prior to the sixteenth century, but of the cause and the manner
thereof there is as yet no documentary information. Thus the Tigua
Indians of Taos and Picuris are separated from their southern relatives
on the Rio Grande by two distinct linguistic groups, the Tehuas and the
Queres; the Jemez and the Pecos were divided from each other by the
Queres and the Tanos. That the Piros and the Tiguas should have
separated from the main stock might be accounted for by the attraction
of the great salt deposits about the Manzano and greater accessibility
to the buffalo plains, but that in the Rio Grande valley itself foreign
linguistic groups should have interposed themselves between the northern
and southern Tiguas and the Jemez and Pecos constitutes a problem which
only diligent research in traditions, legends, and the native languages
may satisfactorily solve.

NEW YORK CITY,
March, 1910.

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Transcriber's Note.

Several words purposely occur in accented and non-accented forms. The
differing occurrences are retained.

Page 20: Misspelling of Sante Fe corrected to Santa Fe.
Page 23: The title "Coleccion de Documentos" modified to
"Coleccion de Documentos".

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