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Map courtesy Smithsonian. The Waco tribe’s word “Tonkawa” translates to “they all stay together,” a fitting moniker because the tribe comprised as many as 200 small, loosely associated groups and clans related by language.
Tonkawa, North American Indian tribe of what is now south-central Texas. Their language is considered by some to belong to the Coahuiltecan family and by others to be a distinct linguistic stock in the Macro-Algonquian phylum.
19 maj 2021 · The Tonkawa Indians lived on the north central plains and the southeastern edge of the Edwards plateau and shared land with Karankawa and Coahuila tribes. They lived in scattered villages of tepees.
12 mar 2021 · The Tonkawa Indians were actually a group of independent bands, the Tonkawas proper, the Mayeyes, and a number of smaller groups that may have included the Cava, Cantona, Emet, Sana, Toho, and Tohaha Indians.
The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe who now live in Oklahoma. [2] Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, [3] is a linguistic isolate. [4] Tonkawa people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
8 maj 2024 · They lived along the Balcones Fault in Texas, around today's Austin, and down into San Antonio, and ranged from the Trinity River to the Nueces River. They may have been pushed out of their original homelands in the plains by larger tribes like the Caddos, Comanches and Wichitas.
26 sie 2005 · The Tonkawa straggled back to Texas and settled near Fort Griffin in Shackleford County where they were used extensively as scouts in the last Indian wars in Texas. When the Indian troubles were over, the Tonkawa were sent back to Indian territory, where the surviving Tonkawa live today.
