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Welcome to the Texas Music Museum. This is a project that actually began in nineteen
eighty four. And here we got, this is the really interesting if you can see on this
map. But this is kind of a map that shows some of the different Texas Native American
Tribes and such. Including some of the extinct tribes and by the way there are still people
who trace some bloodlines to some of the extinct tribes but they're extinct as a group. And
some of the immigrant and exiled and the so of course. Some of the wonderful groups that
you know were here like the Comanches and the Mescalero Apaches, Comanches are now in
Oklahoma. Mescalero Apaches are now in New Mexico. Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches, another
group of course in east Texas is the The Caddos. And this is kind of a special thing right
here, this, now that's a wonderful poster again of the kind of houses and such in east
Texas. And of course we have Caddo Lake still over you know named for the Native American
Tribe that lived in that area you know years ago. As is this is kind of a special thing
for us because this is a beautiful original print by a Caddo artist and such and one of
the reasons I guess some of the other volunteers with this project that have been working on
this for so many years and myself. The reason we kind of hand in there is because the gratification
you also get in terms of meeting a lot of the people and the wonderful reception for
most of the artists. When we visited the Caddos in New Mexico we were lucky they had a weekend
kind of a dance music program and they let us video tape and they fed us really well.
And then when they left this was a present from the Caddo culture club in Oklahoma for
the Texas Music Museum and I think that's a beautiful drawing. Some of the other tribes
you know there was, of course there were so many you know Native groups you know in Texas.
Wichitas, and Tankowas, Lipen Apaches.