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

by Martin Salinas

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.

Genres: History

207 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1990

Reviews

[Noori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough consolidation of information about the native groups in The Rio Grande Delta, coastal areas around the delta, and NE Nuevo León

[Elizabeth Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book because it helped me understand the history of some of my ancestors and the places that they inhabited. Additional primary source information can be located through the Bexar County Archives, which have digitized much of their translated content. http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/be... Happy researching!

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The smaller and even extinct Indian tribes are often neglected. The author examines some of the Native American groups along the Rio Grande River and how they impacted both Northern Mexico and South Texas.