Martín Salinas

Indians of the Rio Grande Delta (eBook, ePUB)

Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first detailed archival study of the indigenous populations of the early historic period in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Mexico. Certain to become a standard reference in its field, 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, Martín 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 indigenous people, their lifeways, and on the relations between the them and the colonial Spanish missions in the region. "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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 207
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292785915
• Artikelnr.: 63556197

Autorenporträt

By Martín Salinas

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Thomas R. Hester
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Environmental Setting
3. Historical Background
4. The Rio Grande Delta
5. Coastal Areas North and South of the Rio Grande Delta
6. Northeastern Nuevo LeÓn
7. Culture
8. Historical Demography
9. Languages
10. Spanish Missions Nearest to the Rio Grande Delta
11. Summary and Conclusions
References
Index