The Jumano Indians

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The Jumano Indians

• Jackson Lease

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The Jumano Indians

• Between 1500 and 1700 the name Jumanos was used
  to identify at least three distinct peoples of
  the Southwest and South Plains
• Tompiro-speaking Pueblo Indians in Salinas
• Caddoan-speaking Wichitas along the Arkansas
  River and Red River basins
• a nomadic trading group based around the Rio
  Grande and Río Conchos
• Source http//www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/
  articles/JJ/bmj7.html

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The Jumano Indians

• The Jumanos were very nomadic
• The Otomoaco Indians of the late sixteenth
  century and the Patarabueyes seem to be the same
  people as Jumano
• Patarabueye has been used to refer to the
  agricultural branch of the Jumanos while Jumano
  refers to the bison hunting branch
• Source http//www.bjgeiger.com/texas/history/indi
  ans/jumanos.html

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The Jumano Indians

• The Jumano wore tattoos
• The only eye witness sources of information on
  the Jumano we have comes from old Spanish
  accounts
• The Jumanos were buffalo hunters and traders
• Spanish explorers sometimes referred to the
  Jumanos as "naked" Indians, because parts of
  their bodies were not clothed
• Source http//www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/
  articles/JJ/bmj7.html

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The Jumano Indians

• Nomadic Jumanos used skin tepees
• Some built houses of reeds or sticks and others
  built pueblos, or masonry houses
• Many died of European diseases. Others were
  killed fighting off the Spanish invaders. The
  Plains Jumano were pushed south and west out of
  their territory by the Apache
• The Jumano traded in bows and arrows, buffalo
  meat and skins, as well as minerals like salt and
  obsidian
• Source http//www.texasindians.com/jumano.htm

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The Jumano Indians

• They traveled by horse, mule and walking
• Source http//imagecache2.allposters.com/images/p
  ic/NYG/76082

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The Jumano Indians

• The painting depicts Sor Maria -- as the Lady in
  Blue -- preaching to the Jumano Indians of West
  Texas.
• The original work was painted by Mrs. Dorothy
  White
• Source http//www.cambridgeconnections.net/Prayer
  Card_3.jpg

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The Jumano Indians

• Jumano Indians standing atop the walls of their
  pueblo watch the arrival of Spanish explorers.
• Drawing by Hal Story
• Source http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/da
  vis/images/jumano.html

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Jumanos Home Areas
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Jumano drawing

• A Jumano brave
• Drawing by Frank Weir
• Source http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus
  /images/he15.html

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Drawing of Jumano

• Jumano drawing
• http//www.bjgeiger.com/texas/history/indians/juma
  nos.html

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BOOKS ABOUT THE JUMANOS

• BY NANCY HICKERSON

• BY HERBERT BOLTON