"We're home," Tonkawa President Russ Martin said at a small Dec. 12 ceremony honoring the recovery of 60 acres of the tribe's ancestral lands in Central Texas. "The first time I got to the top of ...

"We're home," Tonkawa President Russ Martin said at a small Dec. 12 ceremony honoring the recovery of 60 acres of the tribe's ancestral lands in Central Texas. "The first time I got to the top of ...

But in 1884, the Tonkawa were exiled from Texas to a reservation in northern Oklahoma. The tribe, however, did not forget its home in Texas. "For us, it's always been Texas, Texas, Texas," Russell ...

The Tonkawa Tribe was forced out of Central Texas in the late 1800s and relocated to Oklahoma. Groundwork to help reclaim and rediscover what the tribe lost started earlier this week.

GAUSE, Texas — Almost 140 years after the Tonkawa were expelled from Texas, they have returned to purchase Sugarloaf Mountain, a sacred site in Milam County, northeast of Austin, that plays a key role ...