What Indian tribe first lived in Texas?

Answer 1

The "Cossacks of the West" who were better known as th Commanche rank as Number One. First off they're called Native Americans, Second there were the Karankawas, Commanche, Appache(Means Enemy), Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Atakapan, Lipan, Tigua, Jumano, Concho, Tonkawa, and Coahuiltecan,Thats all of them.

Answer 2

There were many different tribes who lived in Texas. The most famous are the Comanche and the Apache. Other tribes included the Wichita, Kiowa, Kitsai, Tawakoni, Bidai, Tonkawa, Lipan, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, Carrizo, Jumanjo, Eastern Pueblos and the Karankawa.

Answer 3

Texas claims to be the home of many different tribal entities. Most are not native to the area but are refugees of forced removal by the United States and Mexican governments. The Apache fit this pattern as rejects by both countries who were forced into Reservation life (call it a ghetto, if yiu choose). Many Cherokee fit that pattern when they sought settlement in Texas because of favorable relations with Sam Houston as do the Coushatta from Alabama. Black (African) Seminole found Texas a congenial refuge.

The Atapakans or Texas and Louisiana Gulf coast natives can be consider as Native-Texan and they include the Akokisas, Bidias, Deadose, Han, and Karankawa.

True wanderers or hunter-gathers who had no established home range include the Coahuiltecans, Kickapoo and Tonkawa.

The settled agrarian groups include the Wichita and their more footloose Waco cousins and the Caddo and the Concho.

There were Puebloan cultures including the Jumano, Concho and the Tigua.

Texas Indians who can lay a genuine claim and birthright to Tejas include both the Kiowa and the Comanche (Who justly deserve their title as Lords of the Plain.)

Answer 4

Since you are asking about a prehistoric time before any written records were kept we can never know the name of the first tribe to settle in the area that much later became Texas.

Paleo-Indians certainly inhabited the area from around 9,300 BC (over 11,000 years ago) but we do not have any knowledge of the languages they spoke, their tribal distinctions or the names of any individuals. All that we know is in the archaeological record, which will never be able to give us those details.

The first records we have of the native populations were written by the European invaders and explorers in 1519 AD, long after the Paleo-Indian culture had disappeared.

Answer 5

The "Drapahoe", pronounced Duh-Rap-Ah-Ho, where among the first groups native to Texas.

Answer 6

Comanches,