Chichitames

The Chichitames were an Indigenous group of the arid country south of the Rio Grande. Spanish records associated them with the Chisos and Toboso, neighboring peoples of the desert basins and mountains of northern Nueva Vizcaya. Their relations with other groups shaped resistance to Spanish expansion: in 1688 Chisos, Toboso, Chichitames and other peoples joined a rebellion. Colonial accounts still named the Chichitames among the groups active in the region in the 1690s, when conflict continued around the desert settlements.