The story of Arizona . de Onate organized a largeexpedition, consisting of 400 men, 130 of whichwere accompanied by their families, 10 Franciscanfriars, 83 wagons and 7,000 head of cattle, with aview of permanently colonizing the fertile countryalong the upper Rio Grande. Like Espejo, hemade one exploring trip into Arizona, where, aftervisiting the Hopi and other Indian villages, he didsome fruitless searching for minerals. At a latertime Onate went as far west as the Colorado Riverdown which he journeyed to its mouth. The battles with the Indians of this really re-markable commander, his trou
The story of Arizona . de Onate organized a largeexpedition, consisting of 400 men, 130 of whichwere accompanied by their families, 10 Franciscanfriars, 83 wagons and 7,000 head of cattle, with aview of permanently colonizing the fertile countryalong the upper Rio Grande. Like Espejo, hemade one exploring trip into Arizona, where, aftervisiting the Hopi and other Indian villages, he didsome fruitless searching for minerals. At a latertime Onate went as far west as the Colorado Riverdown which he journeyed to its mouth. The battles with the Indians of this really re-markable commander, his troubles with membersof his army, his success in establishing colonies,belong to the annals of New Mexico rather than tothose of Arizona, still it should be mentioned thatOnates expedition marked the beginning of the 52 THE STORY OF ARIZONA settlement of New Mexico by the Spaniards, andwith the exception of a brief period following therevolt of the natives in 1680, its occupation by thewhite race was thereafter SPANISH MISSIONS IN ARIZONA AND NORTHERN SONORA Chapter IIISPANISH MISSION DAYS SPANISH mission activities among the Indiansof Arizona began early in the seventeenthcentury when friars from the colonies onthe Rio Grande first visited and later took resi-dence among the Hopis in the pueblos east of thePainted Desert. However, at the time of the NewMexican Revolt in 1680, four Franciscans, whowere ministering in five of the towns of Tusayan,were killed by their parishioners and thereafterall through the Spanish rule the Hopis refused tohave anything to do with the white mans religion. Among the Indians to the south the Spaniardswere much more successful. The work here beganwith the arrival of the Jesuits in 1690. The padresof this order continued in charge of the field forseventy-seven years, when, in 1767, they were suc-ceeded by the Franciscans, who for sixty yearsmore, like their predecessors, labored diligentlyand unselfishly for the salvation of their charges
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