Native American Nations in the Southwestern States - Oklahoma and Texas

Arizona and New Mexico Native American Nations were initially presented in Part VIII in this series. Here we display a number of additional pictures and videos regarding those nations to bridge the migration of native peoples across the American West and Southwest.

Those who became Native Americans migrated eastward as they required additional food and agricultural lands and spread their communities through Texas and Oklahoma onward into the American Southeast. Later, many of them moved back the other direction under Federal Relocation Programs.

First Nations and Native Americans from Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the USA migrated east and south as well. As all of these nations and smaller groups - bands and pueblos and independent groups or communities - moved eastward and encountered European explorers and settlers.

These Indigenous Peoples also met incoming African slaves and peoples from the West Indies and intermixed with them, forming unique cultural segments of America in Metis groups and Creoles, Floridian native groups, and other such interesting ethnicities.

The Southwest and Southeast cultures gave rise to a number of culinary disciplnes that have become the foundation of education for some of the great chefs of today in the southern USA. The idignous cultures and mixes took on certain characteristics of the environment, climate, and landscape as well as of nearby Spanish, Mexican, other European influences and the related cultures.

Also see: Native American Nations, Introduction for the beginning of this series and these topical offerings:

• National Pow Wow of the United States
• Native Americans in Western Novels

OKLAHOMA

Dozens of Native American groups are located in Oklahoma in the 2010s, with a full 60 nations having lived in this state at one time or another.

Many of the current nations in Oklahoma are contained in the following federally-recognized list, not including non-federally recognized or state-recognized nations.

• ABSENTEE SHAWNEE NATION
• ALABAMA QUASSARTE
• APACHE NATION
• CADDO NATION
• CHEROKEE NATION
• CHEYENNE-ARAPAHO NATION
• CHICKASAW NATION
• CHOCTAW NATION
• CITIZENS BAND OF POTAWATOMI
• COMANCHE NATION
• DELAWARE NATION OF EAST OKLAHOMA
• DELAWARE NATION OF WEST OKLAHOMA
• EASTERN SHAWNEE NATION
• FT. SILL APACHE NATION
• IOWA NATION OF OKLAHOMA
• KAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA
• KIALEGEE TRIBAL TOWN
• KICKAPOO NATION
• KIOWA NATION
• LOYAL SHAWNEE NATION
• MIAMI NATION
• MODOC NATION
• MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION
• OSAGE NATION
• OTOE-MISSOURIA NATION
• OTTAWA NATION
• PAWNEE NATION
• PEORIA NATION
• PONCA NATION
• QUAPAW NATION
• SAC & FOX NATION
• SEMINOLE NATION
• SENECA-CAYUGA NATIONS
• THLOPTHLOCCO TRIBAL TOWN
• TONKAWA NATION
• UNITED KEETOOWAH BAND OF CHEROKEES
• WICHITA NATION
• WYANDOTTE NATION
• YUCHI NATION

TEXAS

Native American Indian Reservations in Texas

• Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Rt 3 Box 640, Livingston TX 77351
• Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; HC1 Box 9700, Eagle Pass TX 78852
• Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; PO Box 17579, Ysleta Station, El Paso TX 79917

Migration

The original nations we have found thus far who have  lived in Texas include:

• Apache tribes
• Bidai
• Coahuilteco and Carrizo tribes
• Caddo
• Comanche tribe
• Jumano, Suma, Piro, and other eastern Pueblos
• KarankawaKiowa
• Kitsai
• Tawakoni tribe
• Tonkawa
• Wichita

Other nations that were driven into Texas by Euopean settlements include:

• Alabama
• Coushatta
• Kickapoo
• Tigua Pueblo