Coahuila

[Michael Mccafferty]

Tejanos were not Algonquian. There is no evidence of Algonquian speakers
in that area before the Kickapoo were forced to move there from the north.
The Kickapoo are located, along with their dialect brethren the
Sauk-Fox-Mascouten in the area at the western end of Lake Erie prior to
the Iroquoian catastrophe of the 1600s. They, along with other Algonquian
groups, flee to the western side of Lake Michigan in the mid-17th century,
particularly to the Wisconsin area. They never make it back home and after
spending the 1700s in the Wisconsin-Illinois-Indiana area are forced
across the Mississippi, half of them eventually making their way to
Coahuila. A good place to start with Kickapoo history is volume 15 of the
Smithsonian's /Handbook of the American Indian/. There is a full chapter
on the Kickapoo with details about their historical ventures.


Michael

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, DARKHORSE wrote:

> So far this is what I have found.....
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> The Algonquian family includes several languages in the United States and Canada, such as Cheyenne, Arapaho, Cree, Ojibwa, and Fox, as well as the Kickapoo language of Mexico, spoken by a small group in the state of of Coahuila. Kickapoo is closely related to a larger group of the same name, in the state of Oklahoma, USA. The speakers of this language group arrived in Mexico in 1839.
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> Maybe the Tejanos are of the Algonquian Language Family ?
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