• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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