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Smallpox and slavery decimated the Coahuiltecan in the Monterrey area by the mid-17th century. [11] Due to their remoteness from the major areas of Spanish expansion, the Coahuiltecan in Texas may have suffered less from introduced European diseases and slave raids than did the indigenous populations in northern Mexico.
Gold and silver jewelry was worn alongside ornaments made of feathers, shells, leather, and stones. Among the Aztecs, laws about which ornaments could be worn were strictly enforced. Only royalty could wear headdresses with gold and quetzal (a bird with brilliant blue-green feathers that reach three feet in length) feathers, for example.
When the weather was bad they would wear coverings made from the hides of rabbits and coyotes or whatever was available. They decorated their bodies with tattoos and pierced their bodies. Customs: It is hard to describe the customs of the Coahuiltecan Indians because their customs were different in each band of what is known as the same people.
The Payaya, like other Coahuiltecan peoples, had a hunter-gatherer society. The Spanish recorded their nut-harvesting techniques. The Spanish recorded their nut-harvesting techniques. Historians have speculated that the band's movements in the Edwards Plateau is an indication that pecans were a substantive protein source to the Payaya.
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]
To the south were the Coahuiltecan; to the east, Caddo, Atakapa and Karankawa; to the west, Lipan Apache and, later, Comanche; to the north, Wichita and Kiowa. In the early 19th century, these ...
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The Pastia people (also Pastias, Paxti; Spanish: "chamuscados") [notes 1] were a hunter-gatherer tribe of the Coahuiltecan.The Pastias inhabited the area south of San Antonio, largely between the Medina and San Antonio Rivers and the southward bend of the Nueces River running through modern day La Salle and McMullen counties.