While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens,
clans and phratry. Often very little
information is known or they no longer
exist. We have included them here to
provide more information about the tribes.
Ahome. (Buelna says the aboriginal name is Jaomeme,
'where the man ran'. In Cahita, ho-me means to inhabit, to live, and in
Nahuatl ahome might be derived from atl water, ome two,
'two waters', referring to the ocean tide which ascends the river to this point;
but after all the word may be of Vacoregue origin. ) A subdivision of the
Cahita, speaking the Vacoregue dialect, and the name of its pueblo, situated 4
leagues above the mouth of Rio del Fuerte, N. W. Sinaloa, Mexico. The tradition
exists among them that they came from the N.; in that country they fixed
paradise and the dwelling place of the souls of their dead. They were of
agreeable disposition and of larger sixe than the other inhabitants of the river
valley. They are said to have uttered cries and lamentations for their dead
during one entire year, for an hour at sunrise and another at sunset. Al though
speaking the same language as the inhabitants of a number of neighboring
pueblos, the Ahome formed a distinct organization. The pueblo of Ahome became
the center of the Batucari settlement under the Jesuit missionaries. (F. W. H.)
Baimena A former small tribe and pueblo, evidently
Piman, 6 leagues s. E. of San Jose del Toro, Sinaloa, Mexico. According to
Zapata the people spoke a dialect related to that of the Zoe, who lived next to
them on the N. in 1678. These two tribes traditionally came with the Ahome from
the N. They are now extinct.
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includes some historical materials that may imply negative stereotypes
reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These
items are presented as part of the historical record and should not be
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
