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.
Geies (or Geier). One of the non-Caddoan tribes
reported by Father Damian Massanet, comisario for the missions of Texas, on the
road from Coahuila (probably the presidio rather than the province) to the Tejas
(Texas) country in the 18th century. Dictamen Fiscal, Mexico, Nov. 30, 1716,
cited by H. E. Bolton, inf'n, 1906.
Gueiquesales. A former tribe of s. Texas, probably
Coahuiltecan, living near the Manos Prietas, Bocores, Haeser, Pinanaca, Escaba,
Cacastes, Cocobipta, Codame, Contotores, Colorados, Babiamares, and Taimamares.
Perhaps identical with the Guisoles, and probably the Susolas of Cabeza de Vaca.
(J. R. S.)
Guhlkainde (Gû'l‛ka-ĭ′nde,
'plains people'). A division of the Mescalero Apache who claim as their original
habitat the Staked plains region E. of Pecos r., in New Mexico and Texas.
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reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These
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implied .
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
