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Terrell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census , its population was 760, [ 1 ] making it the seventh-least populous county in Texas , and the 37th-least populous county in the nation .
Born in Bedford County, Virginia in 1775, Terrell was born into a planter and slaveholding family. His father Harry Terrell who later served as a captain in the Revolutionary War. [1] He was the grandson of Joel Terrell from Richmond, Virginia, a man of Quaker ancestry, and his wife. He was probably tutored in the skills he would need to run a ...
In 1986, the state formed the Texas Commission for Indian Affairs, later renamed the Texas Indian Commission, [2] to manage trust lands and assist three federally recognized tribes headquartered in Texas. However, the commission was dissolved in 1989. [3]
With skilled workers being favored, Indians adept in high technology, engineering, energy, manufacturing, and medical fields began clustering within Dallas county. Moreover, the late 1960s and 70s saw an influx of Indian women immigrating to the city, particularly nurses from South India following a national shortage post the Vietnam War. [5]
John Collier, the US Commissioner for Indian Affairs (now BIA), used the report as instrumental support in a proposal to re-organize the Mississippi Choctaw as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI). This action would enable them to establish their own tribal government and develop a beneficial relationship with the federal government.
"The division of O'odham lands has resulted in an artificial division of O'odham society. O'odham bands are now broken up into 4 federally recognized tribes: the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community and the Salt River (Pima Maricopa) Indian community." (quote from the Tohono O'odham Nation website ...
Sanderson is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Terrell County, Texas, United States. [3] The population was 664 at the 2020 census . Sanderson was created in 1882 as a part of neighboring Pecos County .
The purchase was part of the U.S. rancheria program, which began in 1893 [2] and ended around 1922, when 58 tracts of land were purchased in California on which "homeless" Indians could live rent- and tax-free. Most of the land was selected and purchased by Special Indian Agent John Terrell, who took much care in finding good plots of land.