***Just for Fun***Na Na Fun Facts Before 1500 -- Prior to the arrival of the first European explorers, numerous tribes of the Indians of Texas occupied the region between the Rio Grande to the south and the Red River to the north. ***The Caddos in east and northeast Texas were perhaps the most culturally developed. ***The Karankawas ranged along the Gulf coast between present Galveston and Corpus Christi. ***The Coahuiltecan occupied the region along the lower Rio Grand. ***The Lipan, or Lipan-Apache, were among the more important subgroups of Apaches in Texas. ***Other related groups of Apaches, especially the Mescalero-Apache, ranged generally from west Texas into present New Mexico and Arizona. ***The well known Comanche tribes were relative latecomers to Texas, after migrating from the north and northwest. ***The Tonkawa occupied the region of central Texas. ***In addition the these native Texas tribes, numerous others entered east Texas in the early part of the nineteenth century. They came as refugees from the increasingly populated areas east of the Mississippi. The more significant of these tribes included the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Kickapoo, and Shawnee.
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