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Coahuiltecan Indian Tribe
Coahuiltecan, A name adopted by Powell from the tribal naive
Coahuilteco used by Pimentel and Orozco y Berra to include a
group of small, supposedly cognate tribes on both sides of the
lower Rio Grande in Texas and Coahuila. The family is founded on
a slender basis, and the name is geographic rather than ethnic,
as it is not applied to any tribe of the group, while most of
the tribes included therein are extinct, only meager remnants of
some two or three dialects being preserved. Pimentel (Lenguas,
ii, 409, 1865) says: "I call this language Tejano or
Coahuilteco, because, according to the missionaries, it was the
one most in use in the provinces of Coahuila and Texas, being
spoken from La Candela to the Rio San Antonio." The tribes
speaking this language were known under the names of Pajalates,
Orejones, Pacaos, Pacoas, Tilijayos, Alasapas, Pausanes,
Pacuaches,Mescales, Pampopas, Tacames, Venados, Pamaques,
Pihuiques, Borrados, Sanipaos, and Manos de Perro. The only book
known to treat of their language is the Manual para administrar
los santos sacramentos, by Fray Bartholome Garcia, Mexico, 1760.
Other names have been mentioned as possibly those of tribes
belonging to the same family group, chiefly because they resided
in the same general region: Aguastayas, Cachopostales, Carrizos
(generic), Casas Chiquitas, Comecrudo, Cotonam, Pacaruja,
Pakawa, Pastancoya, Patacal, Payaya, Pihuique, Tejones, and
Tilijaes. In addition to these the following may possibly belong
to the family, as the names where mentioned are given in
connection with those of some of the preceding tribes:
Mesquites, Parchinas, Pastias, Pelones, and Salinas. How many of
the names given are applicable to distinct tribes and how many
are synonyms is not known on account of the insufficiency of
data. The books presented are for their historical value only and are not the opinions of the Webmasters of the site.
Handbook of American Indians, 1906
Index of Tribes or Nations
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