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The Tonkawa Tribe is based today in northern Oklahoma, but its homelands are in Texas, where it recently bought back a mountain central to its origination story. The mountain is located near Gause ...
According to the 2010 Census, there were 315,000 people who identified as American Indians or Alaska Natives in Texas.
On New Year’s Day, Williams, 66, was inaugurated as second chief of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, becoming the first woman elected to the post in the tribe’s over-200-year history.
In a landmark act of cultural restoration, the Dallas City Council unanimously agreed last month to name these lakes with Indigenous terms proposed by ...
The two tribes that have objected are the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas and the Caddo Nation. The Miakan-Garza Band has been recognized by the Texas Legislature as an Indigenous tribe, but it ...
Tuesday’s argument in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its ...
In a historic move earlier this week, local officials transferred those lands back to the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas — making the tribe the official stewards of its sacred burial ground.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with two Native American tribes in Texas in a ruling Wednesday that reaffirmed their autonomy to regulate non-prohibited gaming on their lands and strengthened tribal ...