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A scholarly investigation reconstructs the history, culture, and disappearance of a Southwestern indigenous people known from early Spanish accounts. Drawing on explorers' reports and missionary records, the study describes their river-valley villages, agriculture and buffalo hunting, distinctive house forms and body markings, food preparation using heated stones, and patterns of hospitality. It evaluates population estimates, encounters with Europeans, and the puzzling decline that cannot be fully attributed to warfare or epidemic. The work synthesizes ethnographic, linguistic, and historical evidence to propose hypotheses about identity, distribution, and the transformations wrought by contact with colonial society.

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Title: The Jumano Indians

Author: Frederick Webb Hodge

Release date: March 24, 2023 [eBook #70357]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: American Antiquarian Society, 1910

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The Jumano Indians

BY
FREDERICK WEBB HODGE

Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
at the Semi-Annual Meeting, April, 1910.

WORCESTER, MASS., U. S. A.
THE DAVIS PRESS
44 FRONT STREET
1910