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Michael Waters is an American academic working as a professor of anthropology and geography at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Endowed Chair in First American Studies. [1] He specializes in geoarchaeology, [1] and has applied this method to the investigation of Clovis and later Paleo-Indian, and possible pre-Clovis occupation sites. [2]
Their granddaughter, Mollie Taylor Stevenson Sr. (1911-2003), a graduate of Fisk University, and her daughter, Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr., (1946), who attended Texas Southern University, were both inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2001, the first living African-American women to receive the honor.
The Antelope Creek Phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas Panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from AD 1200 to 1450. [1] The two most important areas where the Antelope Creek people lived were in the Canadian River valley centered on present-day Lake Meredith near the city of Borger, Texas and the Buried City complex in Wolf Creek valley near the town of Perryton, Texas.
American Moses Austin was authorized as an empresario by Joaquín de Arredondo of Spain to create a colony of Americans in Texas, which was lightly populated, as a bulwark against the native Comanche people. Before this plan could be implemented, Moses Austin died in Missouri in 1821. That same year Mexico gained independence from Spain.
The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.A freedmen's town is a community settled by formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.
He may also be considered the first Native American male judge in Texas. [7] Harrel Tillman (1962): [13] First African American male to serve as a municipal court judge in Texas (1964) Carlos Cadena (1940): [14] First Hispanic American male to serve as a Chief Justice of a Texas court (1977) Jerry Birdwell: [15] First openly LGBT male judge in ...
The Hasinai Confederacy (Caddo: Hasíinay [2]) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans who occupied territory between the Sabine and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas. Today, their descendants are enrolled in the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana.
The 1967 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). ). The Aggies were led by head coach Gene Stallings in his third season and finished with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4 overall, 6–1 in the SWC), as Southwest Conference champions and with a victory in the ...