The Aranama were an Indigenous people who lived along the

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and Guadalupe rivers of present-day

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, near the

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Language

Aranama people spoke the Aranama language, a poorly attested language that went extinct in the mid-19th century. It may have been a Coahuiltecan language but remains unclassified.

History

Many Aranama people moved to Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga at its second and third locations. Several times, they left the mission to move north, and occasionally joined the Tawakonis. Each time, the Spanish colonists convinced them to return. Some Aranama people also joined San Antonio de Valero in

and Nuestra Señora del Refugio in Refugio.

References

{{authority control Coahuiltecan Extinct Native American peoples Indigenous peoples of Aridoamerica Native American tribes in Texas Pre-statehood history of Texas