For the first time in over 140 years, the Tonkawa Tribe has been officially recognized for its significant contributions to Austin's early history. Five tribal leaders, including Chief Russell ...

"Every time I've come here over the last couple of years, you guys welcome us with so much warmth and love," Rachael Starr, secretary-treasurer of the Tonkawa Tribe, told an Austin crowd on Sept ...

The story of the Tonkawa's short residence in the city is told in a carefully resourced paper, "How the Tonkawa Tribe Came to Live in Austin," placed at the Austin History Center on Aug. 2, 2023.

The story of the Tonkawa's short residence in the city during 1842 and 1843 is told in a carefully resourced paper, "How the Tonkawa Tribe Came to Live in Austin," placed at the Austin History ...

More than 100 years after Tonkawa people were forced out of Texas, the tribe is returning as a land owner The Tonkawa Tribe was forced out of its Texas homelands. Now it's reclaiming a sacred site ...

The Tonkawa, a Native American tribe indigenous to Texas, purchased back the land with the hopes of protecting it and making it into a public park and museum.

On Sept. 12, more than 180 years after the Tonkawa left Austin — and 140 years after they were exiled from Texas to a reservation in Oklahoma — the city will officially thank the tribe for its ...

We look back on five key stories about the Tonkawa in Central Texas as well as fresh reporting on the tribe's friendship with Austin. 'It's going to take all of us': Giving thanks for friendship ...

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 ...