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After siding with the Confederacy, acting as scouts for the Texas Rangers, the Tonkawa Massacre, occurring near Lawton, Oklahoma killed about ½ of the tribe.
* Peaceful Tonkawa tribe first inhabitants
* 1200 a. d. Archeological evidence at Timmeron site indicates Tonkawa tribe involved in agriculture.
Named after the Tonkawa tribe, the city of Tonkawa was founded in March 1894, by Eli V. Blake and Wiley William Gregory.
When the Spanish came to Texas, a small Plains tribe known as the Tonkawa inhabited the area.
Long before Barton Springs Pool was built, the springs were considered sacred and were used for purification rituals by the Tonkawa Native American tribe who inhabited the area.
They are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
Along with several smoke shops, the tribe runs both the Tonkawa Indian Casino located in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and the Native Lights Casino in Newkirk, Oklahoma.
The annual Tonkawa Powwow is held annually on the last weekend in June to commemorate the end of the tribe's own Trail of Tears when the tribe was forcefully removed and relocated from its traditional lands to present-day Oklahoma.
Members of the Tonkawa tribe now speak only English.
They had friendly relations with the Tonkawa Indians, but the hostile Comanche tribe forced them to leave in 1812.

Tonkawa and continued
Comanche, Tonkawa, Seminole and Lipan Apache continued hunting and raiding settlers into the 19th Century.

Tonkawa and their
The Mohawk, and the Attacapa, Tonkawa, and other Texas tribes were known to their neighbours as ' man-eaters.
The earliest known historical native American occupants, the Tonkawa, were a flint-working, hunting people who followed the buffalo on foot and periodically set fire to the prairie to aid them in their hunts.
The Tonkawa were hunter-gatherers of the area, and often traded with their allies the Caddo and Karankawa.
Like the Wichita, Karankawa and Jumano, the Tonkawa tattooed their bodies and faces.
The Tonkawa, Atakapa, and Coahuiltecan peoples were their neighbors.
In the 15th century, the Tonkawa Tribe probably numbered around 5, 000 with their numbers diminishing to around 1, 600 by the late 17th century due to disease and warring with other tribes, most notably the Apache.
In 1824, the Tonkawa entered into a treaty with Stephen F. Austin ( the Father of Republic of Texas ), pledging their support against the Comanche Tribe.
In October 1884, the federal government relocated more than 90 Tonkawa from their lands on the Brazos River Reservation in Texas to lands north of Texas referred to as the Indian Territory.
Apaches shunned the mission, and on March 16, 1758, a band of Comanche, Tonkawa, and Hasinai tribes, angry that the Spaniards were assisting their enemies, pillaged and burned the mission, killing eight people.
Shawnee, Powhatan, Waco, Tawakoni, Tonkawa, Karankawa, Quapaw, and Mosopelea are usually seen as marginally southeastern and their traditional lands represent the borders of the cultural region.

Tonkawa and southern
However, by the 18th century the Plains Apache pushed the Tonkawa south to what is now southern Texas.

Tonkawa and into
NOC, based in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, phased the entire property into use as a satellite campus.
John R. Swanton ( 1915 ) grouped together the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Atakapa, and Maratino languages into a Coahuiltecan grouping.

Tonkawa and Texas
After Texas was admitted as a State, the Tonkawa signed the 1846 Treaty with the Comanche and other Tribes at Council Springs, Texas.
* Panismaha ( also Panimaha, by the 1770s this group of the Skidi had broken off and moved towards Texas, where they allied with the Taovayas, the Tonkawa, Yojuanes and other Texas tribes, was referred to as the Panimaha or Panismaha )
Friendly with the white settlers, Tonkawa were employed as scouts for the Texas Rangers and United States Army.
The Treaty Oak, a once-majestic Southern live oak in Austin, Texas, is the last surviving member of the Council Oaks, a grove of 14 trees that served as a sacred meeting place for Comanche and Tonkawa Tribes.
Tonkawa: An Indian language of Texas.
The Tonkawa are a Native American people indigenous to present-day Oklahoma and Texas.
Scholars used to think the Tonkawa originated in central Texas.
By 1700, the stronger and more aggressive Apache had pushed the Tonkawa south to the Red River which forms the border between current-day Oklahoma and Texas.
In the 1740s some Tonkawa were involved with the Yojuanes and others as settlers in the San Gabriel Missions of Texas along the San Gabriel River.
In 1840 at the Battle of Plum Creek and again in 1858 at the Battle of Little Robe Creek, the Tonkawa fought alongside the Texas Rangers against the Comanche.
During the train journey which began in Cisco, Texas, a Tonkawa baby was born en route and was given the name, " Railroad Cisco ".
" Tonkawa: An Indian language of Texas ".
The Tonkawa language was spoken in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico by the Tonkawa people.
Native American tribes that lived inside the boundaries of present-day Texas include the Alabama, Apache, Atakapan, Bidai, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coushatta, Hasinai, Jumano, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, and Wichita.

Tonkawa and where
This also involved a new US-60 alignment between Tonkawa, Oklahoma and Ponca City, Oklahoma, where US-60, US-77, and US-177 all overlap on the same highway ( which results in northbound US-77, eastbound US-60, and southbound U. S. Highway 177 traffic running in the same compass direction-east ).
Meanwhile, the main Republican army, now under the commanded by Virginian Col. Samuel Kemper, who took over after Magee's death, and buttressed by more recruits, from the Neutral Ground and coastal Lipan and Tonkawa Indians, had moved along the San Antonio River, toward San Antonio, where they defeated Col. Herrera's royalist forces, at Salado Creek, also called Battle of Rosillo Creek, or the Battle of Salado Creek.

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