CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSIONIT MAY have taken quite a long time for these villages to be established. Anyway, every place was pretty well settled down when the Spanish came.22 The Spanish were first heard of at Zuni and then at Awatovi. They came on to Shung-opovi, passing Walpi. At First Mesa, Si-kyatki was the largest village then, and they were called Si-kyatki, not Walpi. The Walpi people were living below the present village on the west side.23 When the Spaniards came, the Hopi thought that they were the ones they were looking for--their white brother, the Bahana, their savior.
The Spaniards visited Shung-opovi several times before the missions were established. The people of Mishongovi welcome
