The Suma Indians (also Zuma and Zumana) lived in northern Chihuahua and the Rio Grande valley of western Texas. They were nomadic hunter gatherers who practiced little or no agriculture. The Suma are extinct as a distinct people, wiped out by smallpox or absorbed by the Hispanic population and the Apache Indians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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