The Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is a tribe of indians that was believed to have been from Texas in the 18th century. Now, scholars are thinking that this group of Indians moved from north western Oklahoma in 1601 to Texas. On their way back to Texas they were first encountered by the Spanish explorers in 1691. While on their way to Texas, they lived next to the Red river by 1700. When the Indians moved back to Texas, they were soon going to have to move back to Oklahoma in the upcoming future. The Tonkawa tribe had to overcome resettlement, wars, and rebuilding their tribe in the near to come future. When the Tonkawa tribes had made it back to Texas, the first place the settled was along the Brazos river in 1854. Here, they would live for the next thirty years until they were to be removed by the government. While they were settled at the Brazos river, they were about 5,000 people that had homes their. In 1855, they had officially been removed from the Brazos river in Texas and were being relocated to Indian territory in Oklahoma. Also during this time period, a war was brewing between the confederate states and the southern states. They chose the side that would …show more content…
One of them being that they could lose their ancestral lands. Their ancestral lands included burial grounds, hunting grounds, and just places where their ancestors used to live. Another reason is that, the Tonkawa did not want to become slaves for the southern states. One little known fact is that they had their own language that only people native to the tribe could speak and could soon be lost. The south had taken Indians in the past and kept them as slaves, that being said, the Tonkawa tribe was not going to side with the south. One last reason is that they could lose many more people if they sided with the south. The south was not as powerful as the confederate