Coahuiltecan people
Also known as Los coahuilenses kimozabi
The Coahuiltecans are a historic indigenous nation of what is now northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. They once spoke a variety of possibly unrelated languages known as the Coahuiltecan languages. The various Coahuiltecan groups were originally nomadic hunter gatherers.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Coahuiltecan
- Ethnic group.image
- Wohngebiet Coahuiltec.png
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Coahuiltecan territories in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Ethnic group.total
- merged into other groups by 1900; several unrecognized tribes as of 21st century
- Ethnic group.regions
- San Antonio, South Texas, U.S.; Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and northeastern Coahuila, Mexico
- Ethnic group.languages
- Coahuiltecan languages
- Ethnic group.religions
- Indigenous religion, Native American Church, Roman Catholicism
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- Language
- Population
- Culture and subsistence
- Settlement and housing
- Cuisine
- Religion
- Warfare
- History
- 16th century
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th and 21st century
- Historical subgroups
- References
- External links
The Coahuiltecans are a historic indigenous nation of what is now northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. They once spoke a variety of possibly unrelated languages known as the Coahuiltecan languages. The various Coahuiltecan groups were originally nomadic hunter gatherers.
First encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, their population declined due to Old World diseases and numerous small-scale wars fought against the Spanish, Apache, and other indigenous groups. After the Texas secession from Mexico, Coahuiltecan peoples were largely forced into harsh living conditions. In 1886, ethnologist Albert Gatschet found the last known survivors of Coahuiltecan bands: 25 Comecrudo, one Cotoname, and two Pakawa, living near Reynosa, Mexico.