TIGUA IS A GROUP OF PUEBLO TRIBES COMPRISING 3 GEOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS. ONE GROUP IS IN NEW MEXICO . THE OTHER TWO LIVE ON THE LOWER RIO GRANDE. THEY WERE FIRST KNOWN IN HISTORY THROUGH CORONADO'S 1540 EXPEDITION. THEY HAD 12 PUEBLOS AND GREW CORN COTTON ,BEANS, SQUASH, MELONS, AND WORE LONG ROBES. THEY WERE FRIENDLY WITH THE SPANISH. AND IN 1540 THE SPANISH DEMANDED THEM TO GIVE THEM THEIR CLOTH AND BLANKETS. THE TIGUA RAN OFF THEIR HORSE HERD AND KILLED A LARGE NUMBER OF SPANIARDS. AFTER A PERIOD THEY STRUCK UP ON PEACE. THROUGH MISUNDERSTANDING THESPIANS KILLED 200 OF THEIR PEOPLE. LATER THE NATIVES BEAT OFF THE SPANISH. THE SOLDIERS KEPT CAPTURING NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN! THEY CONTINUED TO CAPTURE OTHER PUEBLOS THROUGHOUT TEXAS AND ARIZONA.
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