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Tonkawa Tribal Housing is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census [2] and is inhabited by members of the Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The CDP is in southern Kay County, 3 miles (5 km) east of the city of Tonkawa. In addition to residences, the CDP is ...
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. Source:Jones, William K.: Notes on the History and Material Culture of the Tonkawa Indians. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY.
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]
During World War II, Tonkawa was home to Camp Tonkawa, a prisoner-of-war camp.Camp Tonkawa remained in operation from August 30, 1943, to September 1, 1945. [6] Built between October and December 1942, the 160-acre (0.65 km 2) site contained more than 180 wooden structures for 3,000 German POWs as well as 500 U.S. Army guard troops, service personnel and civilian employees. [7]
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Three Sands was one of many populated places which sprung up in the Three Sands Oil Field, also known as the Tonkawa Field, which was discovered in mid-1921 in Noble County and which spread into Kay County in Oklahoma. [1] [2] The name of “Three Sands” referred to the three producing sands (stratigraphic layers) in the 8 sq mi (21 km 2 ...
In 1891, 73 members of the Tonkawa were allocated 994.33 acres (4.0239 km 2) of federal trust land, with an additional 238.24 acres (0.9641 km 2) in individual allotments, near the former Fort Oakland, which is today Tonkawa, Oklahoma, 12 miles (19 km) west of Ponca City. The population on the reservation in 2011 was 537 with 481 being ...
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .