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Table 8.6. Abandonment and later Spanish use of Navajo sites (includes sites not visited by informants).

Site No. Reason for Abandonment: Date Last Used Spanish Use (per informant) Dates of Spanish Inscriptions
Chacra Mesa
29Mc 391 Big Snow Winter: 1932 Yes 2/1929, 12/1935, 2/1938, 2/1939
29Mc 416 - Yes 1/1917, 1/1933, 1/1944, 1/1946
29Mc 424 (No informants) - 3/1939
29Mc 426 Fence: 1947 Yes (No inscriptions)
29Mc 431 (No informants) - 12/1935
29Mc 467 (No informants) - 1937
29Mc 498 (No informants) - 1940
29Mc 499 (No informants) - 4/1929
29Mc 517 (No informants) - 1890
29SJ 2536 (No informants) - 1/1917
29SJ 2560 (No informants) - 5/1935
29SJ 2563 (No informants) - 12?/1916
29SJ 2568 (No informants) - 3/1942
29SJ 2569 (No informants) - 3/1932
29SJ 2571 (No informants) - 9/1912
29SJ 2576 (No informants) - 4/1929
29SJ 2578 (No informants) - 3/1942
29SJ 2625 (No informants) - 1/19--
29SJ 2675 (No informants) - 3/1942
29SJ 2700 1950? Yes (No inscriptions)
29SJ 2966 Fence: 1934 - (No inscriptions)
 
Kin Klizhin
29SJ 2459 Sargent used site Yes (No inscriptions)
29SJ 2471 Husband got sick - 1/1951
29SJ 2484 - Yes 1942
29SJ 2491 Spanish herders here (not used by Navajos?) 12/1929, 12/1939, 12/1940, 11/1941
 
Kin Bineola
29Mc 286 (No informants) - 1895, 1916
29Mc 295 I. K. Westbrook used area Yes (No inscriptions)
29Mc 323 I. K. Westbrook used area Yes? (No inscriptions)
29Mc 324 I. K. Westbrook used area Yes?
Note: In the third column above, if “Yes” is followed by a question mark, it indicates that, while Spanish herders definitely used the area, their use of the site in question was less certain. For more specific details on Spanish inscriptions in the survey areas, see Chapter 6 Appendix 6.1, Table 9. For details on Spanish inscriptions throughout Chaco Canyon, see Brugge (1986:165-169).