Tonkawa

The origin and meaning of the name Tonkawa are unknown. they call themselves Titskan-watich,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

- A 1960 Olympic gold medalist and former NCAA wrester has been killed in a traffic accident in Tonkawa.

Doug Blubaugh Dead: Ex-Olympic Gold Medalist Killed In Traffic Accident The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

- A 1960 Olympic gold medalist and former NCAA wrester has been killed in a traffic accident in Tonkawa.

Doug Blubaugh Dead: Ex-Olympic Gold Medalist Killed In Traffic Accident The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

If you were pursuing them, as Mackenzie was, you had your Tonkawa scouts fan out far in advance of the column.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The only human casualty happened when a Tonkawa scout named Henry shot the horse out from under an elaborately feathered in northern plains style Comanche warrior.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

In centuries past, the Tonkawa Indian warriors rested and watered their horses in this part of the Bosque River and horse thieves hid their bounty along the winding canyon bottoms.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

And so in the fall of that year Mackenzie, not quite knowing what he was doing yet, and with an indifferent regiment he had not yet had time to remake, marched six hundred men and twenty-five Tonkawa scouts up into Blanco Canyon and made his humbling mistakes and then had sixty-six of his horses, including his own gray pacer, deftly removed from him by Quanah and his midnight raiders.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

On the third day the Tonkawa scouts realized they were being shadowed by a group of four Comanche warriors, who had been watching their every move, presumably including what must have seemed to them the comical blunders of the night march.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

With 222 soldiers and 9 Tonkawa scouts he marched toward the rolling, broken prairie on the eastern slope of the caprock escarpment.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Each time another blow landed on the poor Tonkawa, he pleaded with his friends: Why you no shoot?

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010