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!
Carrizo. The Coahuiltecan Indians between Camargo and
Matamoras and along the Gulf coast in N. E. Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the
remnants of the Comecrudo, Pinto or Pakawa, Tejon, Cotonam, and Casas Chiquitas
tribes or bands, gathered about Charco Escondido; so called comprehensively by
the white Mexicans in later years. Previous to 1886, according to Gatschet, who
visited the region in that year, they used the Comecrudo and Mexican-Spanish
languages, and he found that of the 30 or 35 then living scarcely 10 remembered
anything of their native tongue. They repudiated the name Carrizo, calling
themselves Comecrudo. It is probable that the Comecrudo was the ruling tribe
represented in the group. The last chief elected by them was Marcelino, who died
before 1856. This explains the later use of the name, but Orozco y Berra (Geog.,
294, 308, 1864) and Mota Padilla (Hist, de la Conq., 1742, lxix, 1870)
mention them as a distinct tribe, the former stating that they were common to
Coahuila and Tamaulipas. It appears, however, that the name Carrizo was applied
to the Comecrudo (q. v. ) at this earlier date, and that it has generally been
used as synonymous there with. The Carrizos are known to the Kiowa and the
Tonkawa as the shoeless people, because they wore sandals instead of moccasins.
Some Carrizo captives still live among the Kiowa.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
