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Alabama–Coushatta Tribes of Texas, originally from Tennessee and Alabama; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, originally from the Great Lakes; Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas [5] originally from New Mexico. These three tribes are served by the Southern Plains Regional Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs ...
The Akokisa (also known as the Accokesaws, Arkokisa, or Orcoquiza [1]) were an Indigenous tribe who lived on Galveston Bay and the lower Trinity and Sabine rivers in Texas, primarily in the present-day Greater Houston area. [2] They were a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana. [3]
An organization in Floresville, Texas, claims descent from the Comecrudo and formed the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc. [3] As an unrecognized organization, they are neither a federally recognized tribe [4] nor a state-recognized tribe. [5]
North Texas was home to several Native American tribes before 1900. An interactive map will show you which groups lived in your area.
Most of the bands apparently numbered between 100 and 500 people. The total population of non-agricultural Indians, including the Coahuiltecan, in northeastern Mexico and neighboring Texas at the time of first contact with the Spanish has been estimated by two different scholars as 86,000 and 100,000. [1]
Satellite images suggest that some tribes intentionally migrate away from roads or logging operations in order to remain secluded. [ 6 ] Indigenous rights activists have often advocated that Indigenous peoples in isolation be left alone, saying that contact will interfere with their right to self-determination as peoples. [ 6 ]
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Some settled on the Brazos Indian Reservation in present-day Young County, Texas, and were removed with the Caddo to Indian Territory. [6] [2] The remaining Bidai formed one village about 12 miles from Montgomery, Texas, [1] growing corn and picking cotton for hire in the mid-19th century.