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From: "Kathy Hoover" <>
Subject: Re: East Texas Indian Reservations?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:38:20 -0600


I've just consulted W.W. Newcomb's The Indians of Texas from Prehistoric to
Modern Times - Tenaha is not listed as a tribe, though I know I've seen it.
Maybe it was a band (sub-tribal group) ? The Alabama-Coushatta folks came
to Texas kind of late, at least they didn't precede whites like the
Comanche, Apache, Caddoes, Tonkawa, Karankawa did. Wish I had more time to
study this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Garland <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: East Texas Indian Reservations?

>Hi
>
>I don't know about the reservations, but I knew a Tenaha Indian who told
>me his people live in the area around the Big Thicket. And his wife was
>mostly Cherokee and they met in that area, so there must be some
>Cherokees around there, also.
>
>By the way, if anyone knows anything else about the Tenaha (I hope I'm
>spelling that right), I'd like to know more. My old friend, who is now
>"gone", said that the Tenahas were blond-ish, blue-eyed Indians.
>
>Jan
>
>DAG wrote:
>>
>> Might try looking in the Hand Book of Texas, online through Texas State
>> Historical Association. Cherokees had land in East Texas while Houston
>> president. When Lamar became president, Cherokees driven out of East
>> Texas and their chief, Chief Boles (sp?) was basically murdered.
>> Interesting story. Houston extremely close to Cherokees, married into
>> tribe for a time. His political benefactor, Andrew Jackson, forced the
>> Cherokees off their and the other "Civilized Tribes" into Oklahoma.
>> Texas president Mirebeau Lamar hated all Indians and did his best to
>> drive them out of Texas. That is one reason why Texas has only two
>> current reservations, the Alabama Coushatta in Livingston, and the Tigua
>> Indians near El Paso.
>

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