Pajalat
The Pajalat, also Cajalate, Pajalac, Pajalache, Pajalatam, Pallalat or Paxolot were a Native American group who lived in the area just south of San Antonio, Texas prior to the coming of the Spanish to the region in the 18th century. The Pajalat spoke a form of the Coahuilteco language.
Manuscript about the language of the Pajalats in this language and Spanish by Fray Gabriel de Vergara dated 1732
Starting in 1731 the Pajalat moved to Mission Concepcion, where members of the tribe shared alternated holding office as gobernador and alcalde with Tacames.
Sources
- Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. especially page 128.
- Thomas N. Campbell, "PAJALAT INDIANS," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bmp15), accessed December 12, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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