The Houston area has been continuously inhabited by indigenous peoples for as long as 30,000 years. It is the ancestral and unceded homeland of many native peoples, including the Atakapa-Ishak, Akokisa, Karankawa and a group of peoples called Coahuiltecan. Despite the brutal, intentional and largely successful efforts by early white Texans to exterminate the indigenous people of Texas, 70,000 Harris County residents identified as Native American in the most recent census. I’m personally acquainted with people in Southeast Texas of Mexica, Tunica-Biloxi, Alabama Coushata, Karankawa, Cree, Paiute, Navajo (Dine), Mescalero Apache, Lipan Apache, Arawak, Cherokee, Choctaw ancestry and more. Many of them were raised to believe they were Mexican American, Chicano, Hispanic, white or Black; eventually something happened to cause them to no longer wish to hide in plain sight. Here is my attempt to begin to find indigenous communities in Houston and surrounding areas. If you know of others, please share with me.

Reservations in Texas:

Alabama Coushata, Livingston https://www.alabama-coushatta.com/.

Ysleta Del Sur, El Paso. https://www.ysletadelsurpueblo.org/

Kickapoo, Eagle Pass. https://kickapootexas.org/

Lipan Apache, McAllen https://www.lipanapache.org/

Other organizations:

Texas Tribal Buffalo Project. https://www.texastribalbuffaloproject.org/

Karankawa Kadla https://www.facebook.com/groups/219949128842144

Karankawa. https://karankawas.com/

American Indian Center of Houston https://aichouston.org/

American Indian Genocide Museum (Houston-based). https://aigenom.org/

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Texas https://www.facebook.com/mmiw.tx.rematriate/

Museo Guadalupe Aztlan Houston. https://www.museo-guadalupe-aztlan.org/about-us

Houston Aztec Dance. https://www.houstonaztecdance.com/

Southern Apache Museum of Houston https://www.apachemuseum.org/