Tonkawa

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For the city in Oklahoma, see Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

The Tonkawa are a people native to central Texas, speaking the Tonkawa language.

[edit] External links

• Official website of The Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma
• TexasIndians.com page on the Tonkawa
• Sketch of Placido, Chief of the Tonkawas from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A.D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

[edit] Bibliography

• Hoijer, Harry. (1933). Tonkawa: An Indian language of Texas. New York: Columbia University. (Extract from Handbook of American Indian languages, Vol. 3).