Historic Native Peoples of Texas

An incredibly detailed account of Indigenous lifeways during the initial rounds of European exploration in south-central North America.

Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations an...