TANOAN INDIANS. The Tanoan family, a group of linguistically related Puebloan Indians of New Mexico, was represented in Texas in the seventeenth century by Tiguex and Piro Indians.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959).

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