The Aranama were an Indigenous people who lived along the
San Antonio
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and
Guadalupe rivers of present-day
Texas
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,
near the
Gulf Coast
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.
Language
Aranama people spoke the
Aranama language, a poorly attested language that went extinct in the mid-19th century. It may have been a
Coahuiltecan language but remains unclassified.
History

Many Aranama people moved to
Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga at its second and third locations.
Several times, they left the mission to move north, and occasionally joined the
Tawakonis. Each time, the Spanish colonists convinced them to return.
[
Some Aranama people also joined San Antonio de Valero in ]San Antonio
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and Nuestra Señora del Refugio in Refugio.[
]
References
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Coahuiltecan
Extinct Native American peoples
Indigenous peoples of Aridoamerica
Native American tribes in Texas
Pre-statehood history of Texas