"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 ...

Now home to nearly 570,000 people, Williamson County was once inhabited by nomadic bands of the Tonkawa Tribe. Until the mid-19th century, these hunter-gatherers lived in settlements along the ...

"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 ...

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 ...