{"id":40239,"count":1,"description":"The Titska Watitch or Tickanwatic (\u2018Real People\u2019), better known as Tonkawa (from Waco: Tonk-a-weya - \u2018They all stay together\u2019), are a North American folk indigenous to present Oklahoma and Texas. They once spoke the Tonkawa language, an isolate not related to languages of other tribes. It is now extinct. The tribe is federally recognized and most members live in Oklahoma.\nIn the fifteenth century they were probably numbering five thousand but were diminished by disease and warfare against the enemy Apache and other tribes to 1,600 in the late seventeenth century. 1921 there were only thirty-four Tonkawa left, but in 1993 their population had recovered to 186.\nScholars used to think the Tonkawa originated in central Texas. Recent research, however, has shown that the tribe inhabited north-eastern Oklahoma in 1601. By 1700, the stronger and more aggressive Apache had pushed the Tonkawa south to the Red River. They kept migrating into the area of Texas, where they allied with the Lipan...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/tonkawa\/","name":"Tonkawa","slug":"tonkawa","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}