Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

Origination: The Carrizo/Comecrudo-Estok Gna place themselves in Texas prior to any other tribe that has arrived, migrated, or was displaced into Texas a land we call Somi-Sek thousands of years before outside contact. Our oral traditions tell us who we are and the recorded history of Texas places us as the aboriginal and autochthonous people of Texas for a minimum of seven centuries. Historical A

ccount: First Contact with Europeans and Carrizo/Comecrudo was when the Governor of Bermuda sent boats to find the Rio Grande River in circa 1512. Culture: The Carrizo/Comecrudo are the Hokam speaking people of the Texas/Mexico Rio Grand Delta and surrounding area. On Page 145 of the John Swanton Bulletin 127 publication that can be found at the Smithsonian, it identifies the Comecrudan Dialect being the resident language even after the two migrations of the Uto Aztecan from the north and the Athabascan from the South. Historic Accounts: Book cited research includes: “Peyote Cult” by Weston Labarre, and “Peyote Religion” by Omar Stewart in which the Carrizo/Comecrudo are described as the "one"s that helped in maintaining and preserving identities through the introduction of peyote to other Nations.