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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.
Locations of American Indian tribes in Texas, ca. 1500 CE. Native American tribes in Texas are the Native American tribes who are currently based in Texas and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who historically lived in Texas. Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas.
The Payaya people lived near the San Antonio River, the Frio River to the west, near the Pastia tribal lands; and Milam County to the east, where they lived among the Tonkawa. The Payaya called their village Yanaguana. It was located next to the river which the Spanish named the San Antonio.
The Conchos River is the larger of the two. Two terraces rise 20 and 60 feet above the floodplain. Only desert vegetation grows on the terraces. The La Junta Indians lived on the terraces and used the floodplain for agriculture, fishing, hunting, and gathering wild foods. Rugged mountains ring the river valley and terraces. [1]
North Texas was home to several Native American tribes before 1900. An interactive map will show you which groups lived in your area.
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."
Their central settlements were along Bedias Creek that flows into the Trinity River, [1] but their territory ranged from the Brazos River to the Neches River. [5] The first written record of the tribe was in 1691, by Spanish explorers who said they lived near the Hasinai.
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