Texas Music Museum in Austin: Apaches & Caddo Tribes

Video Transcript

"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."