Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One. Jumano Chronology, 1535-1610: First Encounters: Indians and Conquistadors
  • 1. The Travels of Cabeza de Vaca
  • 2. Explorations by Way of the Western Corridor
  • 3. Opening the Central Corridor
  • 4. The Illegal Entrada of CastaÑo de Sosa
  • 5. Juan de OÑate and the Conquest of New Mexico
  • 6. The Jumanos at the Dawn of History
• Part Two. Jumano Chronology,1610-1685: Franciscans and Indians in New Mexico
  • 7. New Mexico in the 1620's
  • 8. Fray Juan de Salas' Mission to the Jumanos
  • 9. The Jumanos at Mid-Century
  • 10. The Pueblo Rebellion of 1680 and Its Aftermath
  • 11. The Expedition to the Rio de las Nueces
  • 12. Alonso de Posada's Report: The Jumano World in 1685
• Part Three. Jumano Chronology, 1685-1700: The Decline and Fall of the Jumano Trade Empire
  • 13. La Salle's Colony: The French Connection
  • 14. Approaches from Coahuila
  • 15. The View from Parral
  • 16. Fin de SiÈcle: The Jumano Diaspora
• Part Four. Continuity and Change in Jumano Culture
  • 17. The Jumano Identity Crisis
  • 18. The Trade Network
  • 19. From History to Prehistory
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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About the Author

Nancy Parrott Hickerson is an associate professor of anthropology at Texas Tech University. She has written numerous related articles and is the author of Linguistic Anthropology.

Reviews

"This important book accomplishes many things... It will reshape perceptions of the history of the Southern Plains and the Spanish borderlands. The Jumanos have been the subject of complete misunderstanding by anthropologists, ethnologists, and historians alike, and Hickerson has gone a great distance to clarify just who the Jumanos were, what happened to them, and why they were important... The Jumanos is excellent ethnohistory." Journal of American History