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PAJASEQUE INDIANS. The Pajaseque (Pausaqui, Paxaseque) Indians were one of five Indian groups encountered by a Spanish exploring party near the site of present Corpus Christi in 1746-47. At this time the Pajaseques were also referred to as Carrizos, a general name commonly applied to Coahuiltecan bands near the Rio Grande below Laredo. Later some of these Pajaseque Indians entered San Antonio de Valero Mission at San Antonio.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Herbert Eugene Bolton, Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1915; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970). Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959). Gabriel Saldivar, Archivo de la historia de Tamaulipas, México (1946). J. R. Swanton, Linguistic Material from the Tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1940).

Thomas N. Campbell

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