The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern
Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous 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 first comprehensive
ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards
Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial
era.
Much of the book deals with events that took place late in the
seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans began to have
their first sustained contact in the region. Wade identifies
twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the
Edwards Plateau at that time. 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 those groups and European colonizers, and
develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular
individuals within broad historical processes.
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