Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series) - Softcover

Salinas, Martín

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292730551 ISBN 13: 9780292730557

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1990

Synopsis

Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is 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.

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Review

"The scholarship is nothing short of superb. ... Salinas has produced the definitive work on the area, which has been needed for years." Author: Rudolph C. Troike, professor, Department of English, University of Arizona

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292730551
• ISBN 13: 9780292730557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 207