GC5MQM6 Traditional Cache Mondo's NAT #551 - Tano
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 02/13/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 46.762 W104° 39.569 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  No Difficult climbing  Available at all times  Park and Grab  No Abandoned Structure 

Native American Tribes series.


Tano

A former group of Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, whose name has been adopted for the family designation. In prehistoric times, according to Bandelier, the Tano formed the southern group of the Tewa, the separation of the two occurring at the ancient village of Tejeuingge Ouiping. In the early historical period the Tano habitat was southward from Santa Fe to the Galisteo basin, a distance of about 20 miles. Coronado passed through the southern part of their territory in 1541, Castañeda describing it as lying between the Quirix (Queres) province and Cicuye (Pecos), and as being almost depopulated on account of depredations by the Teya, a warlike tribe of the plains, 16 years previously. Only 3 pueblos are mentioned by Castañeda as along their route, Ximena (Galisteo), a small, strong village; the Pueblo de los Silos, large, but almost deserted; and another farther eastward, abandoned and in ruins. The last mentioned was probably the one called Coquite by Mota Padilla. In addition to these, however, there were 7 other Tano pueblos in the “snowy mountains,” toward Santa Fé.

The Tano were next visited by Espejo, who went eastwardly from the country of the Tigua, in the vicinity of the present Bernalillo, to the province of the Maguas or Magrias (probably a misprint of Tagnos, a form of the Tigua name), in a pine country without running streams, on the borders of the buffalo plains, where he heard news of the death there of Fray Juan de Santa Marfa two years before. As the seat of this friar’s missionary labors was Pecos, that pueblo was evidently included by Espejo in his Maguas province, to which he attributed the grossly exaggerated population of 40,000, in 11 pueblos. The accounts of Espejo’s journey are unsatisfactory as to directions and distances traveled, and some of the reputed narratives of his expedition are unauthentic. Bandelier regards as the Tano country Espejo’s province of Hubates, with 5 pueblos, which he visited, after returning from a western tour, by traveling 12 leagues eastward from the Queres on the Rio Grande. Thence in a day’s journey Espejo found the “Tamos” in three large villages, one of which was Pecos. This variance in names is doubtless due to guides speaking different languages. If the number of (Tano) villages given by Castañeda in 1540 is correctly given as 10, and if the number of pueblos mentioned by Espejo in 1583 as contained in his provinces of Hubates and Tamos (7, excluding Pecos) is also correct, then it would seem that the hostility of the Teyas spoken of by Castafieda in 1540 had continued in the interim, and that the Tano had been compelled to abandon three of their settlements. This, however, could not have been the case if the 10 villages (excluding Pecos) in Espejo’s province of Maguas is rightly given, as the number agrees with that of Castañeda 40 years before.

In 1630 Benavides estimated the population of the then existing 5 Tano towns at 4,000, all of whom had been baptized. The tribe was almost entirely broken up by the Pueblo revolts of 1680-96, the Indians removing mainly to the Hopi of Arizona after 1694 and the last tribal remnant in New Mexico dying from smallpox early in the 19th century1. The Tano language is now spoken only by a few natives settled in the Tewa, Tigua, and Queres pueblos along the Rio Grande, particularly at Santo Domingo.

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Found it 06/26/2019 By lasouthpaw
It's Wednesday. Some people call it hump day, I call it squeeze in a few caches day. For some reason I feel like I haven't cached enough in June. The cure is a power trail so I headed this way after work. I can get so enamored with the mountains I forget how much I like the plains. Completely different birds, the green and gold of the grasses, blue sky, white clouds, and grey skies that luckily stayed a bit further to the south. Found all but one or maybe two caches, what wasn't in good shape I replaced. In most places the grass was short enough to scan for danger noodles (my new term for snakes), and even in the longer grasses I tiptoed in and out as fast as I could. Sorry for the cut and paste logs, and thank you for adding smileys to my day. Find #3698

Found it 06/04/2019 By Out14nd3r
TFTC

Found it 05/31/2019 By CacheDeposit
TFTC

Write note 05/27/2019 By Ertman110
Nice quick park and grab.

Found it 05/27/2019 By Ertman110
Nice quick park and grab.

Found it 09/30/2018 By ColoradoA_Team
Quick grab! TFTC! ??? ???

Found it 09/26/2018 By Alpenist
TFTC

Found it 09/13/2018 By The_Beau
Thanks

Found it 09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48972

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Smile Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

Found it 08/30/2018 By kkcjrlma
Going to finish the stretch and go find some? Caches. Thanks for this one.

Found it 07/20/2018 By heh324
Oh the attraction of a souvenir to a geocacher!! Curse you geo marketing people for doing your job so well. Evidently this great adventure has been going on for weeks, but in true form PayMeCache waits until the 23rd hour to call me up and say “let’s do this”….so we did. We knew we wanted to crank it out, so the plan was to hit an area concentrated with easy finds, unfound by both of us. Well we all know about best laid plans….our first couple of hours had their struggles, but the good news is if we weren’t quickly finding geocaches, we were laughing until it hurt and enjoying the adventures the universe was throwing at us. We eventually got our groove on and cranked out 80 or so finds for the day. My one piece of advice when caching just south of the airport….stop to watch the planes fly over. It was an amazing experience and the best part for me was watching the HUGE plane shadows sailing over the fields and right over our heads. TFTC

Found it 07/20/2018 By PayMeCache
The things we do for silly souvenirs...

I took a much needed day off to relax and recharge. I wanted to try and bag as many of these souvenirs (that I will forget by tomorrow). That being said heh324 joined forces and is chauffeuring us around. The heat is exhausting but we are getting through it one by one.

Found GC5MQM6 - Mondo's NAT #551 - Tano on July 20, 2018 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, mondou2 for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can try and sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

Found it 07/18/2018 By Geopokemongo
Found with cejamison4 and BVBfan!.. TFTC/SL

Found it 07/18/2018 By BVBfan!
Found with cejamison4 and Geopokemongo.... TFTC/SL

Found it 07/18/2018 By cejamison4
Found with BVBfan! and Geopokemongo.... TFTC/SL