The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799 (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series)

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Winner, Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Winner, Texas Catholic Historical Society, 2003
Finalist: Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Such a lot Significant Contribution to Knowledge, Texas Institute of Letters, 2004

The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once once inhabited by a large number of 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 primary comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas all through the various Spanish colonial era.

Much of the book deals with events that took place late within the seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans started to have their first sustained contact within the region. Wade identifies twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the Edwards Plateau at the moment. 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 the ones groups and European colonizers, and develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular individuals within broad historical processes.

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