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Just like when you become initiated into the Haineph pueblo, which is near Albuquerque, you learn the magic geography of your region; and part of that means going to the center of Albuquerque and being told: There is a spring here at a certain street, and its name is such and such.— Information Liberation
This pueblo is the nearest village to Cibola (Zuńi), from which Tobar came, and as he took the Zuńi trail he would naturally first approach this village, even if the other pueblos on the rim of this valley were inhabited.— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
The legend relates that the overthrow of the pueblo was at the Naacnaiya_,[67] which now takes place in November For many years after its destruction the name of Awatobi was still retained on maps including the Tusayan province, and there exist several published references to the place as if still inhabited; but these appear to be compilations, as no traveler visited the site subsequently to 1700.— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
[191] The northern extremity of the pueblo was their best stronghold, and thither they retired step by step in the face of inevitable doom A. F. BANDELIER SANTA FÉ, Sept. 17, 1880 To PROFESSOR C. E. NORTON, President of the Archæological Institute of America, Cambridge, Mass.— Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I
Gaspar Castaño de la Sosa, Memoria del Descubrimiento_, etc., Documentos Inéditos_, vol. xv. p. 244, speaking of a pueblo which is evidently Pecos, says: "Porque tiene muchos ídolos que atras nos olvidaba de declarar."— Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I

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