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  2. Tonkawa - Wikipedia

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    The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe from Oklahoma and Texas. [2] Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, [4] is a linguistic isolate. [5] Today, Tonkawa people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, headquartered in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. [6] They have more than 700 tribal citizens. [1]

  3. 'We're home': 140 years after forced exile, the Tonkawa ... - AOL

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    The Tonkawa shared Central Texas with others. Before the 1880s, the Indigenous presence in this area had endured for millennia. Recent artifacts unearthed at the Gault Site, on the border of ...

  4. Tonkawa massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Tonkawa massacre (October 23–24, 1862) occurred after an attack at the Confederate-held Wichita Agency, located at Fort Cobb (south of present-day Fort Cobb, Oklahoma) near Anadarko in the Indian Territories, when a detachment of irregular Union Indian troops, made up of the Tonkawa's long-hated tribal enemies, detected a weakness at Fort ...

  5. Battle of Little Robe Creek - Wikipedia

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    The Tonkawa Indians, commanded by their "celebrated" chief, Placido, were hailed as the "faithful and implicitly trusted friend of the whites" (with limited mention of their cannibalism) [11] and undertook a campaign with approximately an equal number of Texas Rangers against the Comanches. Ford and Placido were determined to follow the ...

  6. The Tonkawa Tribe was forced out of its Texas homelands. Now ...

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    The Tonkawa Tribe now has 950 citizens, most of whom live in Oklahoma and half of whom are younger than 18. It is headquartered in a town named after the tribe near Interstate 35.

  7. Placido (Tonkawa leader) - Wikipedia

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    Tonkawa Indians, the latter commanded by their "celebrated" chief, Placido, are hailed today as the "faithful and implicitly trusted friend of the whites" (with limited mention of their cannibalism). Without the Tonkawa, and their 100 experienced warriors, Ford simply did not have enough men to launch a campaign into the Comancheria.

  8. Midlothian, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Tonkawa chiefs Kickapoo Indian Midlothian's current motto Midlothian's old motto. In the early 1800s, settlements began to take place in the area that became Ellis County, but full colonization of this area was slow until 1846, when Sam Houston finalized peace treaties between several of the indigenous inhabitants of the region and the Republic of Texas.

  9. File:A sketch map of the location of the Tonkawa Massacre ...

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    English: A sketch map of the location of the Tonkawas on 23 October 1862, when the Delawares, Shawnees, Kickapoos, Caddos, Comanches and Kiowas attacked them and killed 137 people near present Anadarko, Oklahoma.