CORONADO

Pedro de Castañeda, “Relación de la jornada de Cíbola … ,” Nacera, ~1562, trans. George Parker Winship, The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542, (Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896), p. 488:

[Upon taking Hawikuh, that's just a little bit into what's now New Mexico, Coronado] … found out from the people of the province about the provinces that lay around it, and got them to tell their friends and neighbors that Christians had come into the country, whose only desire was to be their friends, and to find out about good lands to live in, and for them to come to see the strangers and talk with them.

Within a week of capturing Hawikuh, Coronado sent a force of 17 mounted troops and three or four on foot under Captain Don Pedro de Tovar west to the Hopi towns [that are in present day Arizona and] that they then started calling Tusayán (after the name the Cibola Indians gave to the nearest and east-most one of “Tucano”). Again, the Indians named seven towns, and so Coronado and company hoped these might be the Seven Cities they sought.

Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains, (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1949), p. 135:

The seven Hopi towns inhabited at the time of Tovar’s visit, named in order from east to west, were Kawaíokuh and Awátobi on Jeddito Mesa; Sikyátki and Kuchóptuleva (old Walpi) on a second mesa; old Shungópovi and old Mishóngnovi on a third mesa, and Oraibe on a fourth. The social organization, town building, and daily life of the Hopis were similar to those of the Cíbola pueblos.

In fact, they went through the same exercise at Tucano (“Kawaíokuh” in Hopi) as they had at Hawikuh, and came away with the same sort of booty.

More interesting to Coronado was news of a great river which he thought might be a way to Alarcón and the supplies he’d brought. Coronado therefore immediately sent his right-hand man Cardenas and twenty-five mounted troops with supporting Indian guides and servants to Tucano, from which they departed for settlements in the Havasupai area of Grand Canyon on the river.

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