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From: "C Tomlins" <>
Subject: Re: East Texas Indian Reservations?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:16:46 -0600


General James Davis was appointed by Houston to protect the Coushatta
Indians during Texas' fight for Independence. Davis was formerly a Sheriff
from Alabama and a good friend of Houston's. So Davis established a
"reservation" north of Livingston coincidently where part of his expansive
plantation was. The reservation is still there today, I believe.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Hoover <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: East Texas Indian Reservations?

>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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