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The All India Anglo-Indian Association, founded in 1926, has long represented the interests of this ethnic group; it holds that Anglo-Indians are unique in that they are Christians, speak English as their mother tongue, and have a historical link to both the British Isles and the Indian sub-continent. [13]
These are some of the tribes that have existed in what is now Texas. Many were forcibly removed to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, in the 19th century, and few to New Mexico or Louisiana. [1] Others no longer exist as tribes but may have living descendants. Adai people, formerly eastern Texas [17] Apache people, western Texas, Arizona, New ...
Most of the remaining Texas Cherokee were driven north into Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). [1] Sam Houston was once again elected President of Texas and negotiated peace treaties with them in 1843 and 1844. From the 1840s on, the original Cherokee Nation sought compensation for the lands they lost in Texas.
Map of the Lake Creek Settlement (1830s -1840s) in Texas. The Lake Creek Settlement (ca. 1830s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Second Colony, located in Mexican Texas, and later the Republic of Texas after it gained independence in 1836.
An extreme frontier outpost occupied by Texas Rangers to protect Anglo-American civilization from savage Indians in this vicinity." The springs are now located on land associated with the Austin Wildlife Rescue, at 5401 E Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Austin (30.285276,-97.674621).
The Karankawa's autonym is Né-ume, meaning "the people". [1]The name Karakawa has numerous spellings in Spanish, French, and English. [1] [12]Swiss-American ethnologist Albert S. Gatschet wrote that the name Karakawa may have come from the Comecrudo terms klam or glám, meaning "dog", and kawa, meaning "to love, like, to be fond of."
The Antelope Creek phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from AD 1200 to 1450. [1] The two most important areas where the Antelope Creek people lived were in the Canadian River valley centered on present-day Lake Meredith near the city of Borger, Texas, and the Buried City complex in Wolf Creek valley near the town of Perryton, Texas.
In 1843, the Company established a log structure trading site on what is now known as Bent Creek [6] in Hutchinson County. In 1845, they replaced the log structure with an adobe brick, single-entrance fort spanning 80 feet (24m) square, with walls that rose 9 feet (2.7 m). The fort was closed in 1848, due to Indian depredations.