The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 12, July 1908 - April, 1909 Page: 150
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
more than three or four leagues from it;1 and yet the map puts
it at a point nearly straight north of the San Francisco mission,
some thirty miles distant from it, and on the other side of the
Neches River. The map locates the missions of San Francisco
de los Neches (San Francisco de los Tejas, second site), Nuestra
Sefiora de la Purissima Concepci6n, and San Josef de los Nazones
all somewhat too far north, relative to the first mission and that
of Nacogdoches, and puts the mission of Los Adaes as far from
Natchitoches as from the mission of Los Ais, whereas the distance
was not more than two-fifths as great, as Dr. Clark's text correctly
shows. The best evidence attainable seems to indicate that while
the name "Tejas," in its broader sense, included many more tribes
than those of eastern Texas, in its narrower usage it was confined
to the tribes of the Angelina and upper Neches country, and did
not include, as the map indicates, the Cadodachos to the north
or the Bidai, Orcoquiza and other tribes of the coast region." This,
however, is a point on which further light would be welcome.
Turning to the text of the monograph, we are given the im-
pression that Isleta, near El Paso, was from the beginning a
purely Indian settlement, which is the usual view of the matter.
It is undoubtedly true that the importance of the place in the
making of Texas is no more than that assigned to it by Dr. Clark
and others, but a question of fact remains, notwithstanding. It
so happens that Father Nicolas L6pez, the founder of an Isleta
which was presumably identical 'with the one in question, tells us
in terms that it was at the beginning not an Indian settlement,
but one of Spaniards. In a "representation" made to the viceroy
in 1685 he says that, on coming from Mexico to Paso del Norte in
1683, he saw that it would be impossible for all of the refugees
gathered there to subsist in one settlement without great expense
to the government, and that he therefore distributed the population
in smaller settlements in the vicinity, founding, in addition to
that at Paso del Norte, the "settlement (poblazon) of the Pueblo
of Socorro, of Piros Indians; that of San Francisco, of Sumas
Indians; that of the Pueblo of Sacramento, of Tiguas Indians;
1See the references cited in THE QUARTERLY, Vol. X, pp. 263 and 266,
notes.
2See ibid., pp. 249-252.
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