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The Coahuiltecan were various small, ... Most of the bands apparently numbered between 100 and 500 people. The total population of non-agricultural Indians, ...
The exact population residing at the site remains uncertain, as it appears to have functioned more as a visiting area rather than a permanent settlement. Presently, the lack of water in the vicinity suggests it was not suitable for sustaining a population. [1] Unlike other Mesoamerican cultures, there are no traces of pyramids left by the ...
The Ervipiame were first written about in 1673, when the Spanish encountered them in northeastern Coahuila. [1] The Bosque-Larios expedition encountered them in 1675 in the Edwards Plateau of southern Texas.
The first three were first proposed to be related by John Wesley Powell in 1891, in a grouping then called Coahuiltecan. Goddard (1979) groups the latter three in a Comecrudan family while considering the others language isolates. The current composition and the present name "Pakawan" are due to Manaster Ramer (1996).
Edward Sapir (1920) accepted Swanton's proposal and grouped this hypothetical Coahuiltecan into his Hokan stock. After these proposals, documentation of the Garza and Mamulique languages was brought to light, and Goddard (1979) believes that there is sufficient similarity between them and Comecrudan for them to be considered genetically related.
The name Comecrudo means "raw meat eaters" in Spanish. Spanish colonists also called them the Carrizo, [1] meaning "reed." [2] In 1886, they told Gaschet they preferred the name Comecrudo over Carrizo. [2]
The Hape people were a Native American tribe of the Coahuiltecan group. They lived in the region of present-day Texas until their eradication in the late 17th century. [1] Spanish chroniclers also recorded the tribe name as Ape, Jeapa, Xape, [1] Aba, Ara, Gaapa, Hipe, Iape, Xiapoz, or Xapoz. [2]
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century. [1] [2]