The Quiname  or Quinametzin people as they are sometimes called were an ancient race of Giants that existed in Mexico and the Southwestern United States in pre-Columbian times.

They are probably of the same race as the Sitecah and traces of similar breeds of man that have been discovered.

The Quiname In Indigenous Folklore [as reported by Early Western arrivals]

Excerpts from  The History of the Indies of New Spain (Civilization of the American Indian Series)  ....by Diego Duran The Author was born in Seville, Spain circa 1537, and emigrated with his family to New Spain at a young age. He grew up in Tezcoco and Mexico City and became familiar with Aztec ("Nahua") culture and fluent in their language. He joined the Dominican Order as a novice in his teens, and he remained a member of that order the remainder of his life . Durans History of these people is unparalleled and has received outstanding acclaim over the Centuries.

 

"These Giants lived no less bestially than the Chichimecs, as they had abominable customs and ate raw meat from the hunt. In certain places of that region enormous bones of the Giants have been found, which I myself have seen dug up at the foot of cliffs many times. These Giants flung themselves from precipices while fleeing from the Cholultecs and were killed. The Cholultecs had been extremely cruel to the Giants, harassing them, pursuing them from hill to hill, from valley to valley, until they were destroyed."

"...An ambush was then prepared. Some men slyly robbed the guests of their shields, clubs, and swords. The Cholultecs then appeared and attacked. The Giants tried to defend themselves, and, as they could not find their weapons, it is said that they tore branches from the trees with the same ease as one cuts a turnip, and in this way defended themselves valiantly. But finally all were killed."

Proofs of the existence of The Quiname Giants

From The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who served in the army of Hernan Cortes during his conquest of Mexico and later wrote an "exceptionally accurate and reliable" narrative of that brilliant campaign, recounts that in 1519, after the Spaniards defeated the Mexican city-state of Tlaxcala, the Tlaxcatecs became Cortes' most faithful ally. While relating to the Latins something about their history, the Tlaxcatecs mentioned that a race of enormous size had once inhabited their land. "They said their ancestors had told them that very tall men and women with huge bones had once dwelt among them," continues Diaz, "but because they were a very bad people with wicked customs they had fought against them and killed them, and those of them who remained had died off. And to show us how big these giants had been they brought us the leg-bone of one, which was very thick and the height of an ordinary-sized man, and that was a leg-bone from the hip to the knee. I measured myself against it, and it was as tall as I am, though I am of a reasonable height. They brought other pieces of bone of the same kind, but they were all rotten and eaten away by the soil. We were all astonished by the sight of these bones and felt certain there must have been giants in that land."

 Farther north, in what is now Arizona, he encountered the Cocopa tribe. All were at least 8 feet tall . Coronado’s historian noted that 6 Spaniards tried to carry a huge piece of timber to the fire ,but were unable to move it. A Cocopa man lifted it easily onto his head and carried it to the fire.

Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that explorers in Mexico located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of "gigantic size."
 

Washington Post, June 22, 1925, / New York Herald-Tribune, June 21, 1925. It is reported a mining party discovered skeletons measuring 10 to 12 ft tall with feet 18 to 20 inches long, near Sisoguiche, Mexico. According to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts. D. W. Page and F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who averaged over ten feet in height. Local legends state that they came from Ecuador. Nothing more has been heard of this, but that is not surprising; the word "giant" will flutter the feathers of any scientist into rapid flight, metaphorically speaking, in the opposite direction.

In the early 1930s, while exploring a cave near the Canyon of Barranc de Cobre in northern Mexico. A Mr. Paxton Hayes claims to have come across thirty-four mummified men and women. All had blond hair. All between seven and eight feet in height. Roy Norvill, Giants: The vanished race of mighty men