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.
Hacanac. Mentioned by the Gentleman of Elvas in 1557 (Hakluyt
Soc. Publ., ix, 132, 1851) as a province of which Moscoso was informed in
1542; apparently on the N. E. Texan border. Unidentified.
Han. An unidentified tribe living on a part of the
island of Malhado (Galveston id.), Texas, on which Cabeza de Vaca suffered
shipwreck in 1528. The language of the Han differed from that of their
neighbors, the Capoque (probably Coaque), but they had customs in common. They
possibly formed the westernmost band of the Attacapa. See Cabeza de Vaca,
Narr, Smith trans., 82, 1871; Gatschet, Karankawa Inds., 34, 1891.
Hapes. A small tribe found by Spanish explorers on the
lower Rio Grande in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, Tex., although Uhde (1861)
places it near Lampazos, in Nueva Leon, Mexico, some distance farther w. They
numbered 490 in 85 huts in 1688, but an epidemic of smallpox raged among them
soon afterward, and in 1689 the survivors were attacked by coast Indians and
exterminated, with the exception of some boys who were carried off. (J. R. S.)
Heniocane. A former tribe in s. Texas, encountered by
Fernando del Bosque in 1675 and said to number 178, including 65 warriors. They
were probably related to the Coahuiltecan tribes.
Hiabu. A tribe met by De Leon, in company with the
Hapes, Jumenes (Jumano), and Mescales, near the Rio Grande, not far from the
present Laredo, Tex., in 1696. It was probably a Coahuiltecan tribe.
Hianagouy. Mentioned by Joutel (Margry, Dec., iii,
409, 1878) as a tribe living probably in E. Texas in 1687, and hostile to
the Kadohadacho.
Hiantatsi. Mentioned by Joutel (Margry, Dec., iii, 409,
1878) as a tribe living probably in E. Texas in 1687, and hostile to the
Kadohadacho.
Higos (Indios de los Higos, Span.: 'Fig
Indians'). A tribe of s. Texas, so named by Cabeza de Vaca in 1528 (Smith
trans., 84, 1851) from their custom of subsisting on the prickly pear, or
tuna, in its season. Cabeza de Vaca states that they counted the seasons by the
ripening of the fruits, the "dying" or (according to Smith) the biting of the
fish, and by the appearance of certain constellations. Nothing is known of their
ethnic relations. (A. C. F.)
Huanes A former tribe of s. Texas, mentioned with the
Pampoas, Mesquites, Pastias, Camamas, Cacanas, and Canas, as a tribe for which
mission San Jose at San Antonio had been founded.
Hume. A former tribe of s. Texas, probably
Coahuiltecan, the chief of which was encountered in 1675 by Fernando del Bosque
7 leagues beyond the Rio Grande.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
