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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 ...
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]
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.
The governor of Texas visited the Nacogdoche in 1752. [3] Their primary village, Nevantin, was located near present day Nacogdoches, Texas, [6] named for the tribe. Four mounds surrounded the site of Nevantin, until relatively recently. [3] While Spanish colonizers claimed Nacogdoche land, the tribe traded freely with the French.
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]
They have a nonprofit organization, the American Indians in Texas-Spanish Colonial Missions, based in San Antonio, Texas. [1] The Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation is an unrecognized organization. Despite using the word nation in its name, the group is neither a federally recognized tribe [3] nor a state-recognized tribe. [4]
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo or Tigua Pueblo is a Native American Pueblo and federally recognized tribe in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas.Its members are Southern Tiwa people who had been displaced from Spanish New Mexico from 1680 to 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.