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Show Trading Post for Indians in Texas No Longer Do They Shoot Arrows at People. AUSTIN, TEXAS. Yes, Indians still live in Texas, but they don't roam the plains shooting arrows at people. Instead, the 40 members of the Alabama and Coshatti tribes inhabit a 4,000-acre reservation within 90 miles of metropolitan Houston, the state's largest city. Plans are in the making now for construction of a paved highway fronting the reservation and building of a trading post where the redmen may offer for sale to the publje their beaded moccasins, lapel pins, bows and arrows and a variety of useful articles as well as amusing trinkets. Chief of the tribe is 64-year-old Ticaiche, whose Anglicized name is Bronson Cooper Sylestine. He and others of the settlement are wards of the State of Texas. The Indian Village isn't an arrangement ar-rangement of tepees. Instead, scattered scat-tered throughout the piney forest land are small houses. On the old council grounds where pow-wows once were held are located a church, school, hospital, teacher's home, agent's home, cemetery, and a community com-munity center. The white men overran the original origi-nal two leagues of land (more than double the present 4,000 acres) given the tribes back in 1840 by the Republic Repub-lic of Texas. Homes of the Indians were burned, their possessions destroyed and their stock stolen by resentful white men. Since that time life in the tribe has been one of reconstruction. The Missionary department of the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church has aided their progress, and the State of Texas looks after their welfare. |
