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!
Of the location of remaining tribes we know even less than of the last, and
can only record the few statements made of them by the early writers. Three
leagues west of the Nasoni Joutel entered the village of the Noadiche
(Nahordike)1 who, he said, were allies of the Cenis,
and had the same customs. This location corresponds with that assigned by Jesus
Maria to the Nabiti, and the tribes may have been identical. The site designated
was apparently west of the Angelina River and near the southwestern corner of
Rusk County. Similarly, the Nasayaya, put by Jesus Maria east of the Nabiti, may
possibly have been the Nasoni. If they were a separate tribe they must have been
in the same neighborhood. If separate, too, they early disappear from notice,
unless possibly they may be the Nacaxe, who later are found in the same
latitude, but farther east. All that we can say of the location of the Nacao is
that they were northward from the Nacogdoche, and probably closer to the
Nacogdoche than to the Nasoni, since they were attached to the Nacogdoche
mission. A reasonable conjecture is that they were in the neighborhood of
Nacaniche Creek, in Nacogdoches County.2
Thus, with varying degrees of precision and confidence, we are able from a study
of the documents to indicate the early homes of the tribes usually included in
the Hasinai group. Five of the sites, at least, are reasonably well established,
and these are historically the most important, for they were the sites of
Spanish establishments, while the others were not. I refer, of course, to the
villages of the Nabedache, Neche, Hainai, Nacogdoche, and Nasoni. A careful
examination of the topography of the country and of the archaeological remains
would doubtless enable one to verify some and to modify others of the
conclusions here set forth.
2. Jesus Maria puts the
Nacogdoche tribe east and the Nacau tribe
northeast of his mission. He says in another
passage that the Nacao constituted a
province distinct from the Aseney and thirty
leagues from the Nabedache.
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The Native Tribes About The East Texas Mission's, Quarterly of the Texas
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