[1] The Ervipiame were also known as the Chivipane, Cibipane, Hierbipiane, Huvipane, Hyerbipiame, Yerbipiame, Yrbipia,[1] Herbipiames, Yurbipames,[2] Hervipiames, Yerbiapames, Barbipianes, Berttipanes, Irripianes, and Jerbipiam.
[3] Beginning in the 16th century, Spanish settlement in what is today Northern Mexico and the accompanying diseases and slave raiding to supply ranches and mines with Indigenous labor had disruptive effects upon the inhabitants of the region The Ervipiame were first written about in 1673, when the Spanish encountered them in northeastern Coahuila.
Later the Ervipiame were one of several people that lived in the Rancheria Grande along the Brazos River in what is today eastern Texas.
[4] In 1722 El Cuilón lead a group of Rancheria Grande residents, many of them Erviiapame, westward to settle at Mission San Francisco Xavier de Najera.
[6] Mariano Francisco de los Dolores y Viana starting before 1735 made annual trips to the Rancheria Grande and tried to get the Ervipiame and other groups there to move to the missions around San Antonio.