Aranama

The Aranamas ( Anames , Arrenamus , Auraneans , Hazanames , Jaranames , Xaranames ) were a small tribe of farmers living at the beginning close to the southern part of the Texas, along the rivers Guadalupe and San Antonio. Even if the indices are very few, the majority of the authors classify Aranamas among the people of language Coahuiltecan.

The majority of information which we have in connection with Aranamas us comes from the registers of the Spanish missions . The mission Espíritu Santo de Zuñiga was moved in 1722 of the Baie of Matagorda to the Guadalupe river in order to serve Aranamas and the Tamique S. In 1749, the mission was moved near current the Goliad, and much of Aranamas followed it. Some Karankawa S was also in this mission. It was reported that Aranamas had been previously attacked by Karankawas.

The excavations carried out by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory and the Texas Archeological Society in 1997 and 1998 on the third localization of the mission Espíritu Santo (1726-1749) on the Guadalupe river in Victoria County help us to write the history of Aranamas and Tamiques at the time of the Spanish Colonisation. Aranamas partly seem to have preserved their identity within the missions. They continued to manufacture Outil S out of stone, Poterie, and went Chasse R the Bison in the south-east of Texas. However, much gave up their old lifestyle to become farmers in the neighborhoods of Goliad, and others died of the diseases imported by Europeans.

On several occasions, towards the end of the eighteenth century, Aranamas deserted the mission to live with other groups, in particular the Tawakoni S. Each time, the Spaniards led them to return. Some Aranamas were present in other missions (San Antonio de Valero with San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Refugio close to current the Refugio). Morse located them in 1822 on San Antonio River and counted 125 individuals. At the end of eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the population aranama decreased slowly for finally dying out in 1843. The last survivors were undoubtedly absorbed by the Spanish-speaking people installed close to the missions.

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