Group: | Geier |
Total: | extinct as a tribe |
Regions: | southern Texas, U.S.; northeastern Coahuila, Mexico |
Languages: | Coahuiltecan languages |
Religions: | Indigenous religion |
Related Groups: | other Coahuiltecan people |
The Geier Indians or Geies[1] were an 18th-century group of Indigenous people in what became Mexico and the United States. Little is known about this group.
In 1675, a Native group, recorded as the Papuliquier (a combination of the names Pacpul and Geier) visited a Spanish town of Monclova, Coahuila.[2]
The Franciscan priest Damián Massanet wrote that the Geier and five other Native groups had camped along the Frio River, near San Antonio in 1690.[2]
The Geier were last mentioned in 1708, while they were still living in the Frio River valley.[2] They did not join any of the Spanish missions.[2]
Damián Massanet reported that the Geier spoke the Coahuiltecan language.[2]