FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Question
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Spanish explorers named it after a region in Spain
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Caddo tribe word meaning “Friendship”
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Named after a Spanish Explorer
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Apache tribe word for “Plains”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story goes that the word “Texas” itself comes from the Caddo word for “friends”. The Caddo were a confederacy of Native American tribes that dominated East Texas. The Spanish set up a mission in the region in the 17th century, led by friar Damián Massanet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tejas is the Spanish spelling of a Caddo word taysha, which means “friend” or “ally". In the 17th century the Spanish knew the westernmost Caddo peoples as “the great kingdom of Tejas” and the name lived on to become the name of the 28th state of the United States-Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -The origin of Texas’s name is from the Caddo word táyshaʼ meaning ‘friends’. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, Texas contains diverse landscapes common to both the U.S. Southern and the Southwestern regions.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the Caddoan tribes, called Tejas by the Spanish, is the origin for the name Texas.
Detailed explanation-5: -Friendship was adopted as the Texas state motto in February 1930. The motto was most likely chosen because the name of Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation of the local Indian tribe’s word teyshas or thecas meaning friends or allies.