Querecho Indians
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U.S. Texas Panhandle)[1] | |
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Plains Apache language | |
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Indigenous religion | |
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other Plains Apache, possibly Teya people |
The Querecho Indians were an historical band of
In 1541 the Spanish conquistador
This was the first known venture of Europeans across the Great Plains of the United States. Coronado and his chroniclers were the first Europeans to describe the buffalo-hunting nomads of the Plains.
Name
The name Querecho was what the
History
1540s
The
[The Querechos lived] in tents made of the tanned skins of the cows (bison). They travel around near the cows killing them for food.... They travel like the Arabs, with their tents and troops of dogs loaded with poles... these people eat raw flesh and drink blood. They do not eat human flesh. They are a kind people and not cruel. They are faithful friends. They are able to make themselves very well understood by means of signs. They dry the flesh in the sun, cutting it thin like a leaf, and when dry they grind it like meal to keep it and make a sort of sea soup of it to eat.... They season it with fat, which they always try to secure when they kill a cow. They empty a large gut and fill it with blood, and carry this around the neck to drink when they are thirsty.[2]
1560s
In 1565, Francisco de Ibarra met a bison-hunting people he called Querechos near Casas Grandes, Mexico, hundreds of miles from where Coronado had visited them. There were about 300 men and their "attractive" women and children visiting the area, probably on a trading mission. They said that large bison herds could be found on a four-day journey to the North. This meeting indicates that the Querechos were far-ranging even before they acquired horses.[3]
1580s
This brief account describes many typical features of pre-horse
In 1583, the explorer
Who Were the Querecho?
The Querecho were a band of Apache.[1] They were Southern Athabascan people who had migrated to the Southwest and Southern Plains in previous centuries from the Athabascan homelands in Alaska and northwestern Canada.
The Apache arrived on the Llano Estacado perhaps possibly around 1450 CE years the Spanish visited them there. A village farming culture in the Texas Panhandle, the
References
- ^ a b c d e "Apache". Texas Beyond History. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas–Auston. 1 August 2005. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ Winship, George Parker, ed. and trans., The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1904), pp. 65, 112, 194.
- ^ Foster, William C. Historic Native Peoples of Texas. Austin: U of Tex Press, 2008, 143
- ^ Mecham, J. Lloyd, "The Second Spanish Expedition to New Mexico," New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1926, 284
- ^ Hammond, George P. and Rey, Agapito, The Rediscovery of New Mexico, Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 224
- ^ Robert Blasing, "Pre-European Cultural Relationships between the Plains and Southwest Regions," 10-12. Accessed, Mar 1, 2010; Wilcox, David R. "The Entry of Athapaskans into the American Southwest: The Problem Today" [1] Accessed, Mar 1, 2010
- ^ Hammond and Rey, 224
External links
- Vaquero Indians, Texas State Historical Association