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Setting out from Fort Inge in South Texas on October 1, 1854, Captain John G. Walker, in command of around 40 men of the Mounted Rifles, headed for the Diablo Mountains region along the Rio Grande border with Mexico. Their mission was to investigate the reports from local settlers of stolen livestock, taken by Apache warriors. On the third day ...
The Lipan Apache Band of Texas hosts an annual powwow in Fort Clark Springs, Texas, which has been honored in a congratulatory resolution. [12] Each March, they participate in a living history celebration at Fort Clark. [4] The Mexican state of Coahuila invited LABT members to visit for a cultural exchange in 2009. [9]
Carnoviste (1825 ca. – 1876) was a southern (Guadalupe) Mescalero chief, his band—presumably Tsehitcihéndé or Niit'ahénde—lived in the Texan Big Bend Country, ranging on both sides of the Rio Grande from the Guadalupe Mountains towards east of the Limpia Mountains (also known as Davis Mountains) onto the edge of the Southern Plains.
The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas hosts two annual powwows in Alton, Texas. [44] A member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, Gonzo Flores, served as Southern Plains Vice-President of the National Congress of American Indians in 2022. [45] He was succeeded by Reggie Wassana (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes). [46]
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Jun. 14—Through partnerships with private and public organizations, Fort Davis ISD is turning its financial situation around. For several years it looked like FDISD was facing the possibility of ...
Two Lipan Apache children, Kesetta Roosevelt (1880–1906) [16] from New Mexico, and Jack Mather (d. 1888), at Carlisle Indian School, ca. 1885. The name "Lipan" is a Spanish adaption of their self-designation as Łipa-į́ Ndé or Lépai-Ndé ("Light Gray People"), reflecting their migratory story. [17]
Fort Davis, like other Texas communities, formerly had racially segregated schools, with the "American" (for non-Hispanic white children) school on the site of the present-day Fort Davis High School. The "Mexican school" was located at the current site of Dirks-Anderson Elementary School in Fort Davis.