Some of our favorite places for learning about Native Americans in Texas.
Early
Indians of Texas:
Texas
Indians and Texas Place Names
Texas place names derived from Indian words as well as names that
are associated with Indians or their activities.
Texas Arrowheads and Indian Artifacts Online Museum
Indian Artifacts from prehistoric times to the early Clovis and Tejas
Native American tribes.
Stone
Tools of Texas
Types of stone tools and raw materials used by prehistoric inhabitants
of Texas.
Texas
Texas Beyond History - Archeological Research
Information and images of the cultural legacy of Texas. Themed online
exhibits, lesson plans, etc.. Covers prehistoric peoples, as well
as the early explorers and settlers.
Native
American Tribes:
Texas Indians
Information on the various tribes, curriculum guide and Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills. Includes the Caddos, Comanches, Apaches, Atakapans,
Karankawas, Tonkawas, Jumanos, Wichitas, Kiowas, and the Coahuiltecans.
Learn
About Texas Indians
Teaching
Young Children about Native Americans.
Indian
Tribes of Texas
Handbook
of Texas Online: INDIANS
Curriculum, Lesson Plans and student guides.
Institute
of Texan Cultures - Texas' Native Americans
Information, curriculum and activities for 4th graders.
Texas
Indians and the First Settlers:
Texas
Indians before and during the Establishment of the Missions
A study of the Indian tribes and the areas where they lived - Spanish
Colonial Texas in the eighteenth century.
Indian
Relations in Texas
The Texas Indian Papers tell the story of frontier defense from the
point of view of white Texans, primarily from the 1830s to the 1850s.
Places
to Visit and Field Trips:
Alabama-Coushatta
Reservation - Livingston
Tigua
Indian Reservation: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo - El Paso
Historic
Sites to Visit:
El
Paso - Hueco Tanks State Historic Site
Pictographs
include more than 200 face designs, animal figures where the Apaches,
Kiowas, and earlier Indian tribes camped.
Comstock
- Seminole Canyon - world renown rock paintings of the Lower Pecos,
contains some of North America’s oldest rock paintings at Fate Bell
Shelter.
Nacogdoches
- Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site
Dwellings and ceremonial areas, two temple mounds, a burial mound, and
a village area of prehistoric Caddo Indians
