![]() Map of Aranama territory circa 1500 CE | |
Total population | |
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extinct (1843) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Texas, Aridoamerica | |
Languages | |
Aranama language | |
Religion | |
Indigenous religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Coahuiltecans |
The Aranama were an Indigenous people who lived along the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers of present-day Texas, [1] near the Gulf Coast.
Aranama people spoke the Aranama language, a poorly attested language that went extinct in the mid-19th century. It may have been a Coahuiltecan language but remains unclassified.[ citation needed]
Many Aranama people moved to Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga at its second and third locations. [2] Several times, they left the mission to move north, and occasionally joined the Tawakonis. Each time, the Spanish colonists convinced them to return. [1]
Some Aranama people also joined San Antonio de Valero in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Refugio in Refugio. [1]