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In the late sixteenth century, Spanish explorers described encounters with North American people they called ""Jumanos."" Although widespread contact with Jumanos is evident in accounts of exploration and colonization in New Mexico, Texas, and adjacent regions, their scattered distribution and scant documentation have led to long-standing disagreements: was ""Jumano"" simply a generic name loosely applied to a number of tribes, or were they an authentic, vanished people? In the first full-length study of the Jumanos, anthropologist Nancy Hickerson proposes that they were indeed a distinctive tribe, their wide travel pattern linked over well-established itineraries. Drawing on extensive primary sources, Hickerson also explores their crucial role as traders in a network extending from the Rio Grande to the Caddoan tribes' confederacies of East Texas and Oklahoma. Hickerson further concludes that the Jumanos eventually became agents for the Spanish colonies, drafted as mercenary fighters and intelligence-gatherers. Her findings reinterpret the cultural history of the South Plains region, bridging numerous gaps in the area's comprehensive history and in the chronicle of these elusive people.

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Author:   Nancy Parrott Hickerson
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292730847

ISBN 10:   0292730845
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 August 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroductionPart One. Jumano Chronology, 1535-1610: First Encounters: Indians and Conquistadors1. The Travels of Cabeza de Vaca2. Explorations by Way of the Western Corridor3. Opening the Central Corridor4. The Illegal Entrada of Castano de Sosa5. Juan de Onate and the Conquest of New Mexico6. The Jumanos at the Dawn of HistoryPart Two. Jumano Chronology,1610-1685: Franciscans and Indians in New Mexico7. New Mexico in the 1620's8. Fray Juan de Salas' Mission to the Jumanos9. The Jumanos at Mid-Century10. The Pueblo Rebellion of 1680 and Its Aftermath11. The Expedition to the Rio de las Nueces12. Alonso de Posada's Report: The Jumano World in 1685Part Three. Jumano Chronology, 1685-1700: The Decline and Fall of the Jumano Trade Empire13. La Salle's Colony: The French Connection14. Approaches from Coahuila15. The View from Parral16. Fin de Siecle: The Jumano DiasporaPart Four. Continuity and Change in Jumano Culture17. The Jumano Identity Crisis18. The Trade Network19. From History to PrehistoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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""This important book accomplishes many things... It will reshape perceptions of the history of the Southern Plains and the Spanish borderlands. The Jumanos have been the subject of complete misunderstanding by anthropologists, ethnologists, and historians alike, and Hickerson has gone a great distance to clarify just who the Jumanos were, what happened to them, and why they were important... The Jumanos is excellent ethnohistory."" Journal of American History

This important book accomplishes many things... It will reshape perceptions of the history of the Southern Plains and the Spanish borderlands. The Jumanos have been the subject of complete misunderstanding by anthropologists, ethnologists, and historians alike, and Hickerson has gone a great distance to clarify just who the Jumanos were, what happened to them, and why they were important... <cite>The Jumanos is excellent ethnohistory. Journal of American History

This important book accomplishes many things... It will reshape perceptions of the history of the Southern Plains and the Spanish borderlands. The Jumanos have been the subject of complete misunderstanding by anthropologists, ethnologists, and historians alike, and Hickerson has gone a great distance to clarify just who the Jumanos were, what happened to them, and why they were important... The Jumanos is excellent ethnohistory. Journal of American History

Author Information

Nancy Parrott Hickerson is an associate professor of anthropology at Texas Tech University. She has written numerous related articles and is the author of Linguistic Anthropology.

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