The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799 / Maria F. Wade ; maps by Don E. Wade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wade, Maria de Fátima, 1948-

Contributor:

World Alliance for Decentralized Energy, Funder.

Series:

Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series.

Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Texas--Edwards Plateau--History.

Indians of North America.

Edwards Plateau (Tex.)--History.

Edwards Plateau (Tex.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key sources, Maria F. Wade has compiled this first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era. Much of the book deals with events that took place late in the seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans began to have their first sustained contact in the region. Wade identifies twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the Edwards Plateau at that time. She offers evidence that the groups had sophisticated social and cultural mechanisms, including extensive information networks, ladino cultural brokers, broad-based coalitions, and individuals with dual-ethnic status. She also tracks the eastern movement of Spanish colonizers into the Edwards Plateau region, explores the relationships among Native groups and between those groups and European colonizers, and develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular individuals within broad historical processes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note to the Reader

Chapter 1. A Move to Settle

Chapter 2. The Bosque-Larios Expedition

Chapter 3. A Move to Revolt

Chapter 4. The Mendoza-Lopez Expedition, 1683-1684

Chapter 5. A New Frontier: Tierra adentro, tierra afuera

Chapter 6. Hard Choices: The Apache, the Spaniard, and the Local Native Groups, 1700-1755

Chapter 7. The Price of Peace: Friends, Foes, and Frontiers

Chapter 8. Ethnohistory and Archaeology

Chapter 9. Conclusions: Weaving the Threads

Appendix. Translation of Documents

Notes

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79631-5

OCLC:

320324230