I am sick of the constant erasure and intertribal violence. We are NOT living ghosts or the descendants of dead tribes. And if you want to see who is recognized by Texas, check out this document released by the Texas Education agency - T has a complex and violent history www.txel.org/media/2wskbh...
I think she means legislative recognition? There’s multiple forms of state recognition - we actually are in NCAI because of Federal court of claims, after proving we were the direct descendants of the Lipan from 300 plus years ago. This shit’s complex.
Yeah, my own people are halved with only the Oklahoma group federally recognized, but the Indiana group sure isn't *dead* and have enrollment. They took our last reservation and status with it, but we bought back our sacred land and persist in our traditional lands. As you said, this shit's complex.
Thank you for the doc, really cool to see the relatively high population in my region. I had a student get really excited last week because we were reading a primary source on the Lipan and she told me that was her tribe. Happened to be her birthday too!
