Mondo's NAT # 072 - Awatobi Traditional Cache
Mondo's NAT # 072 - Awatobi
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Awatobi
A former pueblo of the Hopi on a mesa about nine miles southeast of Walpi, Arizona. It was one of the original villages of the province of Tusayan of the early Spaniards and visited by several Spanish explorers in the 1500's. It became the seat of the Franciscan mission of San Bernardino in 1629, under Father Porras, who was poisoned by the Hopi in 1633; but the endeavor to Christianize the Hopi at this and other pueblos was continued until 1680, when, in the Pueblo rebellion which began in August, the Awatobi missionary, Father Figueroa, was murdered. At this time the Awatobi people numbered 800. Henceforward no Spanish priests were established among the Hopi, although in 1700, Father Garaycoechea visited Awatobi, where he baptized 73 natives, but was unsuccessful it his attempt to reestablish missions among them. In November of the same year owing to the friendly feeling which the Awatobi are said to have had for the Spanish friars, their kindred, especially of Walpi and Mashongnovi, joined in an attack on Awatobi at night, setting fire to the pueblo, killing many of its inhabitants, including all the men, and carrying off women and children to the other pueblos, chiefly to Mashongnovi, Walpi and Oraibi. Awatobi was never again inhabited.
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