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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]
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad purchased the company on December 22, 1899. [1] Rock Island did not complete the line from Billings to Tonkawa, Oklahoma, 14.9 miles, until 1926, but promptly connected Tonkawa to Ponca City, another 11.4 miles, just a year later in 1927. [1] The entire line has subsequently been abandoned. [4]
The Tonkawa Tribe now has 950 citizens, most of whom live in Oklahoma and half of whom are younger than 18. It is headquartered in a town named after the tribe near Interstate 35.
The Tonkawa shared Central Texas with others. Before the 1880s, the Indigenous presence in this area had endured for millennia. Recent artifacts unearthed at the Gault Site, on the border of ...
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Many scholars starting with Herbert E. Bolton have held the view that the Yojuane spoke the Tonkawa language or a language related to it. However Gary Anderson argues that the Yojuane spoke the same language or a related language to the Jumano Indians and that this was a Uto-Aztecan language, largely based on the ability of Nahuatl speakers to converse with the Jumano and Yojuane when they ...
David Emmett Williams (Tonkawa name: Tosque) was born on August 20, 1933, in Lawton, Oklahoma, to singer and leather-worker Emmett Williams (Tonkawa/Kiowa Apache) and his Kiowa wife, [4] Jennie Sahkoodlequoie, [5] [6] who was descended of Satanka (Sitting Bear, [4] ca. 1800–1871).