HIGO INDIANS
HIGO INDIANS. Higo Indians ("of the Figs"), a group met by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, in South Texas between 1528 and 1534, was so named because of the diet of cactus fruit.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959).
Citation
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Margery H. Krieger, "HIGO INDIANS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bmh13), accessed June 19, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
