• The Taovaya tribe of the Wichita people were Native Americans originally from Kansas, who moved south into Oklahoma and Texas in the 18th century. They...
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    Texas, and Kansas. Today, Wichita tribes, which include the Kichai people, Waco, Taovaya, Tawakoni, and the Wichita proper (or Guichita), are federally recognized...
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    statehood and named in honor of President Thomas Jefferson. In the 1750s, the Taovaya Indians, a Wichita tribe, established twin villages along the Red River...
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    among the Taovaya and four Taovaya and Wichita to visit San Antonio in an attempt to improve relations between the Spanish and the Wichita peoples, who were...
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    formerly north-central, now Oklahoma Kichai, formerly north, now Oklahoma Taovaya, formerly north in the 19th century, now Oklahoma Tawakoni, formerly north...
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  • Francisco Xavier Chaves (category People of the American Old West)
    Comanche in 1770 and was subsequently sold or traded to the Taovaya. He was fluent in the Taovaya and Comanche languages as well as Spanish. In 1785, along...
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    the community had a population of 50 in 2000. Spanish Fort was once a Taovaya Indian town that was fortified in the eighteenth century. Later Anglo immigrants...
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    were an Indigenous people who lived along the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers of present-day Texas, near the Gulf Coast. Aranama people spoke the Aranama...
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  • Diego Ortiz Parrilla (category People from New Spain)
    Pignatelli, 3rd Marquis of Rubí in 1767. A tentative peace between the Taovaya people and New Spain would not be formalized until 1772. Historian Dan L. Thrapp...
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    Atakapa (redirect from Atakapa people)
    The Atakapa /əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/ or Atacapa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived...
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    Pawnee had broken off and moved toward Texas, where they allied with the Taovaya, the Tonkawa, Yojuane and other Texas tribes) Historically, the Pawnee...
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  • Spanish attack on Taovaya villages in what is now Texas and Oklahoma by a Spanish army in 1759. The Spanish were defeated by the Taovaya and other Wichita...
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    native speaker, now deceased) in the late 1960s. hiɾaːwisʔihaːs Old.time.people kijariːt͡seːhiɾeːweʔe God hikaʔat͡saːkikaʔakʔit͡saki When.he.made.us.dwell...
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    fortified Taovaya villages in the Red River Valley near Spanish Fort, Texas. They were defeated in the Battle of the Twin Villages by the Taovaya and the...
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    numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California. Indigenous peoples of the Americas portal Oklahoma portal Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area...
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    12,000 years ago. Throughout the early 1800s, Commanche, Taovaya, Caddo, and Hainai peoples settled along banks of the Brazos in this area. The most prominent...
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    Deadose (category Indigenous peoples of North America stubs)
    Teyas° Tilijae Tomoacas Tonkawa* Wichita and Affiliated Tribes* (Kichai, Taovaya, Tawakoni, Waco, Wichita proper) Yojuane≠ Related topics Sam Houston and...
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    Kichai (also related to the Caddo), Oklahoma, formerly Texas and Kansas Taovayas (Tawehash), Oklahoma, formerly Texas and Kansas Tawakoni, Oklahoma, formerly...
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  • aspect included the Wichita people, that was made up of several subgroups, including the Tawakoni, Wichita, Waco, and Taovaya. The reason these subgroups...
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  • Mayeye (category Karankawa people)
    The Mayeye were a Tonkawa–speaking Native American people, who once lived in southeastern Texas. Coastal Mayeyes likely were absorbed into Karankawa communities...
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  • These two names are similar to the Wichita tribes, the Tawakonis and Taovayas. In 1540, Spaniard Francisco Vásquez de Coronado commanded a large expedition...
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  • Pedro Vial (category People of Spanish Texas)
    nations." At that time, he had already lived for several years with the Taovaya, a Wichita tribe in their twin villages on the Red River at Spanish Fort...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (category People from Saint-Malo)
    population to be 6 or 7 thousand people of whom the majority were Tawakoni. Other Wichita sub-tribes, especially the Taovaya were also present. The presence...
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  • 000 natives, mostly Tawakoni (a sub-group of the Wichita people), although some were Taovaya (another sub-group of the Wichita). Harpe's party received...
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  • The Yojuane were a people who lived in Texas in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. They were closely associated with the Jumano and may have also been...
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    Skidi had broken off and moved towards Texas, where they allied with the Taovayas, the Tonkawa, Yojuanes, and other Texas tribes. This group was referred...
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    encountered the Comanche and other tribes at a fortified village of the Taovayas, a Wichita people. The town had been surrounded by a stockade and a moat and flew...
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    Kichai (also related to the Caddo), Oklahoma, formerly Texas and Kansas Taovayas (Tawehash), Oklahoma, formerly Texas and Kansas Tawakoni, Oklahoma, formerly...
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  • Claude Charles du Tisné (category People of New France)
    route to New Mexico. Du Tisné likely had visited a sub-tribe later called Taovayas. As he described them, their total population of perhaps 3,000, seemed...
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  • Facundo Melgares (category People from Murcia)
    expedition. Taos (start) Canadian river headwaters (Rio Rojo) Red River Taovayas village Medicine Lodge River Turkey Creek Kinsley Sun City, Kansas Mouth...
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