The Jumanos
Subtitle: Hunters and Traders of the South Plains
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780292730847
Subjects: Ethnography; Social Science; Sociology; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Archaeology; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / Archaeology; Ethnohistory; History; Jumano Indians; Social life and customs; Sources; Southwest, New
Description: In this first full-length study of the Jumanos, anthropologist Nancy Hickerson proposes that they were indeed a distinctive tribe, their wide travel pattern linked over well-established itineraries. Drawing on extensive primary sources, Hickerson also explores their crucial role as traders in a network extending from the Rio Grande to the Caddoan tribes' confederacies of East Texas and Oklahoma.