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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]
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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 ...
At the request of the Tonkawa News for a definitive name, merchants met with oil company officials and the name Three Sands was adopted. [1] The settlement was never incorporated; however, In March, 1923, petitioners who were demanding a post office said that 2,000 people lived in the town and another 2,000 to 3,000 lived within a mile of it. [1]
The colonists soon began working on an alliance with the Tonkawa Indians of the region, whom they saw as "great beggars" who did not threaten their desires to settle on the land. [7] There were further battles and one-sided massacres , and by 1824 the local Carancaguase chief Antonio signed a treaty abandoning their homelands east of the ...
The Tonkawa Indians, commanded by their "celebrated" chief, Placido, were hailed as the "faithful and implicitly trusted friend of the whites" (with limited mention of their cannibalism) [11] and undertook a campaign with approximately an equal number of Texas Rangers against the Comanches. Ford and Placido were determined to follow the ...