AUSTIN — A new federal study supports long-held claims by an American Indian tribe that the state of Texas stole 36 square miles of tribal territory in El Paso.
The 172-page report, completed last year, was obtained by the San Antonio Express-News under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Now, members of the Ysleta Pueblo del Sur, known as the Tiguas, are trying to determine what to do with the information in the study.
The territory, which the tribe lost in 1871 when the Texas Legislature used it to incorporate the town of Ysleta, is now home to tens of thousands of homes and businesses.




Drive the Texans out at gunpoint with only the clothes on their backs!
OK, I don’t mean that. But it would be fun…