TAJIQUE INDIANS. The Tajique Indians, inhabitants of a Tiguex pueblo of the same name in New Mexico, abandoned their village in 1674, gradually drifted to El Paso, and became part of the Tiguex settlement.

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

W. E. S. Dickerson