Native Americans

Burial Mounds

Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site (Texas Historical Commission)

Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site (TX Parks & Wildlife)

Texas Handbook on Historic Site

Mounds of Mystery

Caddo Mounds

Indian mounds of the United States

Indian Burial and Sacred Grounds Watch

Interactive map of TX regions

Overview sites for Texas Native Americans

NOTE: This guide is meant to help people get started who want to do research on the Native American tribes who lived in Texas, before the Europeans came. This is by NO means an exhaustive list of places where one can look. But, I hope it will help as a jumping off point.

Handbook of Texas Online (Has an excellent article on each Texas tribe. Search by tribe name.)

Indians of Texas (with map)

Texas Indians

Texas Indians (Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept.)

Native Americans (Institute of Texan Cultures)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Letters on Spanish Texas

Specific Texas Tribes

Apache (Lipan)

Caddo | More Caddo | Still More Caddo |

Coahuiltecan | More Coahuiltecan | Still More Coahuiltecan |

Comanche | More Comanche | Still More Comanche | Even More Comanche |

Jumano

Karankawa | More Karankawa | Karankawa Fact Sheet |

Kiowa | Kiowa |

Wichita | More Wichita |

Great Plains

Great Plains

Horses and Great Plains Indians

Buffalo and Great Plains Indians

Foods

Native American Recipes

What Great Plains Indians ate

Foods from the New World (From Colonial Times/Discovery of the New World)

Tribes now living within Texas

Alabama-Coushatta

Kickapoo

Tiguas (El Paso, TX-area)

Recommended reading

Fantastic Futures Books, in association with Amazon.com Books, brings you the following books or you can ask for these books at your local public library (or have them borrowed for you on interlibrary loan):

Newcomb, William Wilmon.
Indians of Texas : From Prehistoric to Modern Times
Austin: University of Texas Press, c1985. LC 60-14312.

Warren, Betsy.
Indians Who Lived in Texas
Hendrick-Long Pub.Co., c1981.

Caddo tribe

Carter, Cecile Elkins.
Caddo Indians : Where We Come from
Univ. of Oklahoma Press, c. 1995. LC 95-3395.

Smith, F. Todd.
Caddo Indians : Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854
Texas A&M Univ. Press, c.1995. LC 94041590.

Comanche tribe

Mooney, Martin J.
Comanche Indians
Chelsea House, c.1993. LC 92-9932.

Rollings, Willard H.
Comanche
Chelsea House, c.1989. LC 88-33987.

Jumanos tribe

Hickerson, Nancy Parrott.
Jumanos : Hunters and Traders of the South Plains
University of Texas Press, c1994. LC 93-39838.

Karankawa tribe

Gatschet, Albert S.
Karankawa Indians: the coast people of Texas
Kraus Reprint Co.,c1974.

Ricklis, Robert A.
Karankawa Indians of Texas : An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change
Univ. of Texas Press,c.1996. LC 95-30404.

Kiowa tribe

Dolan, Terrance.
Kiowa Indians
Chelsea House, c.1994. LC 93-17696.

Lipan Apache tribe

Schilz, Thomas F.
Lipan Apaches in Texas
Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, c1987. LC 86-51650.

Present Day Texas Tribes

Hook, Jonathan B.
Alabama-Coushatta Indians
Texas A&M University Press, 1997

Wright, Bill
Texas Kickapoo : Keepers of Tradition
Texas Western Press, 1996

Wright, Bill
Tiguas : Pueblo Indians of Texas
Texas Western Press, 1993

These are NOT the only books on Texas Indians.

Native Americans - All Tribes