Tickanwatic: The Tonkawa People - Plains - History, Culture & Affiliations

This is a video for “The Tonkawa (Tickanwa’tic) People“. There are also videos in this channel for: “The Apache People(s)“, more Plains Peoples.. and for over 270 other North & South-American Tribes & First Nations. ------------------------------------------------ “The Tonkawa People” are a Indigenous American tribe, who were traditionally located in present-day, Texas. They once spoke the now-extinct Tonkawa language, a language isolate. Today, many descendants are enrolled in the federally recognized: Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The Tonkawa Peoples’ name for themselves (autonym) is: “Tickanwa-tic”, meaning: ‘”real people”. The Waco (Wichita) name for the Tonkawa People is: “Tonkaweya”, meaning: ‘they all stay together'. The Tonkawa People belong to the Tonkawan linguistic family, that was once composed of a number of small sub-tribes, who lived in a region, that extended west, from south central Texas and western Oklahoma, to eastern New Me