AHOUERHOPIHEIM INDIANS. In the latter part of the seventeenth
century, according to records of the La Salle expedition, the
Ahouerhopiheim (Abonerhopiheim, Ahonerhopiheim) Indians occupied
an inland area somewhere north of Matagorda Bay, probably near
the Colorado River or between the Colorado and Brazos rivers.
Although this name has passed into American Indian literature,
there is some question about its accuracy. There is some
evidence that on Henri Joutel's original manuscript two names
appeared, Ahouergomahe and Kemahopiheim, and that a printer,
through error, manufactured a hybrid name, using the first and
last parts of these names respectively. The linguistic and
cultural affiliations of the Indians bearing these names remain
unknown. Isaac Joslin Cox, ed., The Journeys of René Robert
Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (2 vols., New York: Barnes, 1905; 2d
ed., New York: Allerton, 1922). Frederick Webb Hodge, ed.,
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols.,
Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New Yor