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Because the initial bill, HR 1344, allowed gambling, amendments were made and the Yselta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act was reintroduced as HR 318. [10] Public Law 100–89, 101 STAT. 666 was enacted on 18 August 1987 and restored the federal relationship with the tribe.
Coushatta and Alabama who stayed in Alabama were part of the 1830s forcible removal to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Today their descendants form the federally recognized Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Some of the Coushatta tribe split from the Creek Confederacy and went to South Louisiana.
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The Alabama–Quassarte Tribal Town (Alabama: Oola Albaama-Kosaati, Coushatta: Oola Albaamo-Kowassaati) is both a federally recognized Native American tribe and a traditional township of Muskogean-speaking Alabama and Coushatta (also known as Quassarte) peoples. Their traditional languages include Alabama, Koasati, and Mvskoke.
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Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas reservation. Texas has three federally recognized tribes. [1] They have met the seven criteria of an American Indian tribe: being an American Indian entity since at least 1900; a predominant part of the group forms a distinct community and has done so throughout history into the present
US 59) and through Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation, entering Tyler County, merging with FM 256 and into Woodville. East of Woodville, FM 256 splits north and US 190 crosses BA Steinhagen Lake, into Jasper County , intersecting with SH 63 east, and in the center of Jasper intersecting with US 96 .
The Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation, Texas' oldest reservation, located at , has 18.484 km 2 (7.137 sq mi) of land. The land purchased by the state and assigned to the Alabama in 1854 was expanded by another purchase, under a federal grant in 1928.