| Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico Contributor(s): Salinas, Martín (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292730551 ISBN-13: 9780292730557 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: Certain to become a standard reference in its field, 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 976.401 |
| LCCN: 89-16737 |
| Series: Texas Archaeology & Ethnohistory |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.66 lbs) 207 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
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| Publisher Description: Certain to become a standard reference in its field, 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. |
