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

Martín Salinas

ISBN 10: 0292730551 / ISBN 13: 9780292730557

Published by University of Texas Press, 1990

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1990. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292730551
• ISBN 13: 9780292730557
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Review

"The scholarship is nothing short of superb. ... Salinas has produced the definitive work on the area, which has been needed for years." (Rudolph C. Troike, professor, Department of English, University of Arizona)