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!
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Ebahamo. An extinct tribe formerly dwelling on
Matagorda bay, Tex. La Salle constructed his Ft St Louis within the territory of
this tribe and of the Quelanhubeches, or Karankawa, who probably were a cognate
people. Joutel (1687) states in his narrative (French, Hist. Coll. La., i,
134, 1846) that La Salle recorded a vocabulary of their language, which is
very different from that of the Cenis (Caddo) and more difficult; that they were
neighbors and allies of the latter people and understood some of their words.
"At our fort at St Louis bay," he says, "we made some stay to cultivate the
friendship of our Bracamos (as the Indian nation that dwells near our fort is
called), in order to leave protectors to the people whom we would have to leave
in the fort." (A. S. G.)
Emet. A small tribe met by De Leon and Manzanet near
lower Guadalupe r., Texas, in 1689. They occupied a village with the Cava
Indians near the crossing place, apparently about 15 leagues from the French
Fort St Louis on Matagorda bay. To the northward they encountered several other
Emet "ranchitos." Within a year these Indians appear to have moved farther E.,
for in 1690 De Leon encountered them on that side of the Rio Colorado, living
with the Cava, Too, and Toaa Indians, their former neighbors. They were perhaps
related to the Karankawa. Possibly the Meghty of Joutel are identical. (H. E.
B.)
Erigoanna. A tribe living near St Louis (Matagorda)
bay, Tex., in 1687, and referred to as at war with the Ebaharmo, q. v. (Douay
quoted by Shea, Discov. and Expl. Miss., 209, 1852). Not identified,
unless the same as the Kohani (q.v.). Probably a Karankawa band.
Ervipiames. A tribe of central Texas in the 18th
century. Domingo Ramon was met by some of them a few leagues w. of Trinity r.,
not far from the country of the Bidai. They re mentioned in unpublished
documents as among the tribes which in company with other northern tribes
petitioned for a mission on San Javier r., and they are included among the
northern Indians as distinguished from the coast tribes. If they belonged to any
of the large recognized divisions in this neighborhood it was probably Tonkawan.
(H. E. B.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
