The Jumano Indians in Texas, 1650-1771

University Of California Libraries, Herbert Eugene Bolton

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THE JUMANO INDIANS IN1650-1771TEXAS,BYHERBERT E. BOLTONfrom The of the Texas State HistoricalReprint Quarterly Association,Volume No. 1.XV,Bancroft LibraryTHE INDIANS IN 1650-1771JUMANO TEXAS,HERBERT E. BOLTONI. THE JUMANO MYSTERYon the archives of Mexico arethe whichAmong many subjectsneeded one is of the hisnow new and much thatshedding light,of the Indians after the middle of the seventeenthJumanotoryannals of New Mexico and southwesternIn thecentury. earlyand were lessTexas the tribe was well known, though they prominent after a few references to them between that date and1629,the end of the seventeenth have been available. Butcentury longstudents until foundof their movements thenceforth have recentlyin was constrained tolittle trace. Bandelier, say:writing 1890,"The Jumanos were lost of after the convulsions ofsight great1680 and and their ultimate fate is as unknownsucceeding years,1inas their numbers." a recentoriginal Similarly, Hodge, study,states that until before his he had been "baffledshortly writing byto the sudden almostwhat be andappeared complete disappear2ance of this once tribe." The writer,populous present throughhis in the archives of had the fortuneinvestigations Mexico, goodto the in 1907 and to show that from 1750threadpick up againforward the a of the Eed EiverWichita tribe (Texas),Taovayas,3were called "Jumanes" the of New Mexico.regularly by Spaniardshas taken this information to be the toHodge newly acquired ...

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