Lummis asserts that Isleta and Ácoma are the only pueblos on sites occupied in Coronado’s time; but in another place he says that he was told by the Ácomas that “a generation ago” drought forced their inhabitants to form a colony at Isleta. Bandelier says: “With the exception of Ácoma there is not a single pueblo standing where it was at the time of Coronado, or even sixty years later, when Juan de Oñate accomplished the peaceable reduction of the New Mexican village Indians.”[125] Again he writes that such fragments of Ácoma tradition as could be gathered pointed “to the north as the direction whence that branch of the Queres originally came, and of the Pueblo of Sía on the Jémez River as the place where they separated from the other Queres.” Since it is true that much Ácoma tradition assigns their origin to a separation from the main Keres nation at Sía, it is rather curious that Mrs. Stevenson[126] makes not the slightest allusion, in her exhaustive memoir, to Ácoma or to any tribal connection between Sía and Ácoma. After this separation they drifted “to the Southwest across the bleak valley of the Rio Puerco, and dividing into two bands, established themselves in small pueblos to the right and left of Cañada de la Cruz and on the mesa above Acomita, twelve miles north of their present village.” On both sides of the Cañada de la Cruz toward Laguna there are mesas with ruins which Ácoma claims for its ancestors. This supports their tradition of having drifted hither in several small bands, which settled separately and then consolidated—on Katzímo, or on Ácoma. This would be the place and time for their use of the Mesa Encantada. Acomita is still part of the cultivated land belonging to the Ácomas. Thither nearly the whole population has migrated every summer for generations, and some of them now live there the year round. It is twelve miles in a straight line north of the peñol and occupies fertile bottomlands of Blue Water Creek. Pueblito and McCarty’s are other stretches of adjacent farming country occupied in the same way by the Ácomas. Here they raise enough wheat, corn, chili, beans, peaches, and melons for their use, and have some to barter for other necessities. Bandelier considers it uncertain whether these fields were cultivated when Espéjo came there in 1583, because the distance of “two leagues” that Espéjo gives does not agree with the present position. May it not rather be an incorrect measurement?