Atajal

The Atajal lived near the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau, west of San Antonio. In 1690 the Franciscan Damián Massanet met them and five other Indigenous groups in the Frio River valley. His observations suggest that the Atajal spoke a language known to the Spanish as Coahuilteco. Apache movements southward displaced people in this region, and the Atajal were last recorded farther south in 1708. Their surviving members may later have joined another community.