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The First Europeans in Texas, 1528-1536
(h) The Indian Tribes Near the First Mountains
Ju dge Coopwood has collated much valuable information con-
cerning the Indian tribes of northern Tamaulipas and Nuevo Le6n,
principally from Prieto's I istoria Geogrcflice y Estadistica del
Estado de Tamaulipas.181
Prieto says that Indians of a tribe called Malaguecos were
located at the present site of Mier when that town was founded
by Escand6n in 1753. These Indians were of a most docile and
timid character. They made no objection to the founding of the
Spanish town on the site of their village, congregated with the
white settlers of their own volition, became mixed with the Span-
ish settlers, and soon lost their language and tribal identity.
Judge Coopwood suggests, with reason, that these Indians may
well have been identical with Cabeza de Vaca's Maliacones.
Cabeza de Vaca's white Indians, among whom the Spaniards
were when they saw the first mountains, Judge Coopwood iden-
tifies with a well known tribe of Indians found in this region,
whom the Spaniards, from the earliest times distinguished as
Blancos, Borrados, Pintos, and Rayones. These Indians are sup-
posed to have been of Nahoan stock, and were widely distributed
in Nuevo Le6n and northern Tamaulipas. Prieto says that in
1750 they were known under the name of Borrados, on the left
margin of the Rio Grande, above the' site of the present town
of Zapata, and that when Escand6n explored the country from
the south end of the Sierra Pamoranes to the coast-a moderate
day's ride--he found there a congregation of these Indians under
the name of Pintos. These may well have been the Indians to
whom the visitors from "down toward the sea," wished to take
the Spaniards from the village on the river "at the foot of the
point" of the mountain. Prieto says, also, that Escanddn's expe-
dition in 1749 found fields of maize and beans between the Rio
Conchas and the Rio Santander (Soto La Marina). This expe-
dition noted the Sierra Pamoranes, north of the Sierra San Carlos,
with the open plain between, through which flows the Rio
Conchas.182
31Coopwood, THE QUARTERLY, III, 136; Prieto, pp. 186-187.
C32Coopwood, THE QUARTERLY, III, 136-137; Velasco, Geografia Estadis-
tica de Nuevo Len, ,p. 8; Prieto, p. 175-152.239
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