What follows is a post on our Brownsville Station Facebook page which yielded some interesting responses - almost four years ago - with a brilliant follow up which occurred today, 21 August 2021. Read on the original post with caption beneath it and a few responses from our esteemed commentators. The final comment is the clincher, if I can use that word!
2017 September
Maria Atkinson
Do you know which Indians these might be?
Brownsville Station
Um.... no.
Vicky Contreras
En mi opinion por su vestuario se ven mas como indigenas. Y gracias por mostrar estas fotos no dejemos que nuestro pasado se borre y conoscamos mas atravez de ellas.
Brownsville Station
Sí, estás en lo correcto. Son pueblos indígenas.
Minnie Atkinson
Do you mean Pueblo indians?
Brownsville Station
Minnie - the word "pueblo" when used in Spanish may indicate "village - small settlement" of indigenous (or aboriginal) peoples. Not quite the same as the Anasazi peoples of New Mexico commonly known as Pueblo Indians. Hope that is accurate - and helpful to you
Maria Garza Romay
The man looks meztizo, the woman looks more native.
Patricia Guillermo Williams
The child on her lap has blonde hair. And you're right Mary, the man looks meztizo.
Aurelio Romo
It could be the Tampacuas or the indians from Los Indios, Tx there was few indians living in Mercedes lake and also in the riverbend in Los Indios, source from Hidalgo Country Cementary records.
Aurelio Romo
In 2015 construction workers found a indian burial site in Ridge Rd and Jackson rd near a orange grove in Pharr, Tx after labs test , they found out it belong to a indian tribe from the 1800's.
Brownsville Station
Other tribes from this region of which I only recently heard about are the Carrizo-Comecrudo tribe(s) but who can tell a Coahuiltecan from a Karankawa on this page?? We're all a mix of peoples - aboriginal peoples mixed too long before Europeans got here.
Rosa Clipper Fleming Stevenson
My Tia Minnie from Los Indios had a picture with these same people in it. I'm going to ask my cousins for a copy.
Atkins Salinas Becca
Rosa Fleming Stevenson do u know the names of these people?
8/21/2021
Rosa Clipper Fleming Stevenson
I finally found out...the little boy being held is named Frankie. He would later go on and pass away in Germany somewhere. He was related to our family loosely as is the little boy next to him, who my older family believes was named Guillermo or Willie. If what they say to me is true then the darker-hued lady and little boy are indigenous and AfroMexican, with little Frankie coming from a second union or relationship with the man in the picture. Most of Los Indios was actually a mix of descendants of intermarriages with indigenous and AfroMexican peopel. You can find it all in the census records starting in like 1901ish. I'll ask more questions and see what else I can find out. If you look at the records a lot of the people there were classified as "negro" by the US and came up from the state of Guerrero or Oaxaca, intermarrying with the indigenous peoples already living there
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