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Jumano Indians
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Are Jumanos still around to this day?
The Jumanos were a complex group of cultures. They are all gone now. Why they disappeared is one of the great unanswered questions in Texas history. All that we know about them indicates they were quite adaptable.They were certainly hurt badly by the Spanish occupation and take over of their lands. Many died of European diseases. Others were killed fighting off the Spanish invaders.
Housing
Territory & Land
The Jumanos built houses out of adobe brick and mud. The houses were built in a tee pee style form. The Jumanos would set off fires inside the tee pees so that they could cook meats over the tee pees while the fumes exhaled from the tee pees.
The Rio Grande branch of the Jumanos were Puebloan Indians and they lived in Puebloan style villages.The Pueblos along the Rio Grande north and south of modern El Paso from the Tompiro Pueblo down to La Junta and smaller villages along the Rio Concho in Old Mexico formed the core area of historic Jumano culture.
Food Culture
Jumanos supplied corn, dried squashes, beans, and other produce from the farming villages, in exchange for pelts, meat, and other buffalo products, and foods such as piñon nuts, mesquiteqv beans, and cactus fruits.
Hunting and Gathering
The Jumano people were both farmers and buffalo hunters who were known to wear tattoos.They also gathered wild plants and hunted buffalo with bows and arrows. Buffalo was important to them because they would make tools and clothes from the hides and bones.