East hanos

East of Janos, dry plains and mountain ranges stretch toward the Rio Grande and El Paso del Norte. The Janos were one of several Indigenous peoples of this frontier, alongside the Suma and Manso. Spanish missions brought some families into settled communities, but conflict accompanied colonial expansion. In 1683 Janos, Suma and Manso people rose at El Paso, and later Spanish records describe Janos communities at the presidio there as well as at the settlement bearing their name.