Tonkawa

The Tonkawa are an American Indian tribe of the southern Great Plains. Once believed to be indigenous to Texas, recent scholarship places the Tonkawa in present northwestern Oklahoma in 1601. The Tonkawa were on the Red River by 1700, having been pushed south by the Apache. Retreating further into central Texas, the Tonkawa joined other displaced tribes, including the Lipan Apache, with whom they became closely allied.