Payas
The Payas are an indigenous people in Honduras .
Around 1500 the Payas lived in the Honduran part of the Mosquito Coast , from where they were expelled or killed by the conquistadors and the Miskitos . Currently in Honduras Payas in Olancho Department often live in the Municipio Dulce Nombre de Culmi and San Esteban. Others live in the departments of Colón and Gracias a Dios .
They refer to themselves as bad luck (people, plural: payas), others refer to them as hakua bad luck (other people). Your language is counted among the Chibcha languages . Their settlement area was in the east and south of the settlement area of the Xicaques (Jicaques) and was mapped east of Punta Caxinas as Taia . Eduard Conzemius laid their settlement area east of the Río Aguan in the south to Patuca along the Caribbean coast to Cabo Gracias a Dios . The Miskitos drove them out in the 19th century, although they paid tribute beforehand. A number of place names in this area commemorate their presence. On the banks of the Rio Platano were petroglyphs found which are interpreted as a religious center.
In the representations, the Payas are often confused with other indigenous groups; they are often called Xicaques . At the end of the 17th century, mission expeditions found the Payas in the Valles de Agalta , Tinto and Wampu (Guampu) valleys . Later indios butucos , who belong to the Payas, settled in Telic in the Valle del Guayape; later they went to Manian, near Comayagua. Other indigenous groups in the area are Taguapas, Chatos, Sules, Yaras, and Cumajas.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Conzemius, Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua United States Government Printing Office , WASHINGTON, 1932