Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico [Paperback]

Indians of the Rio Grande Deltais the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Depending on available information, he reconstructs something of their history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture. He also offers general information on various unnamed groups of Indians, on the lifeways of the indigenous peoples, and on the relations between the Indian groups and the colonial Spanish missions in the region.

• Foreword by Thomas R. Hester
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Environmental Setting
• 3. Historical Background
• 4. The Rio Grande Delta
• 5. Coastal Areas North and South of the Rio Grande Delta
• 6. Northeastern Nuevo León
• 7. Culture
• 8. Historical Demography
• 9. Languages
• 10. Spanish Missions Nearest to the Rio Grande Delta
• 11. Summary and Conclusions
• References
• Index