What year did the native americans give the name Tejas to Texas?

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What year did the native americans give the name Tejas to Texas?
What happened is not precisely known. Spanish missionaries and soldiers around 1690 heard the word “tejas,” or something like this, as used in the Hasinai confederacy—one of several Caddo alliances—near the Sabine River. The word, as the Spanish understood it, meant either a group of people or the ideas of “friendship” or “alliance” among the Caddos. The “kingdom of the Texas” was a phrase used in early European record—perhaps meaning nothing more exact than the “kingdom of the allies.”





Only as a coincidence, it seems, was a similar word encountered by the Spanish on the high plains. In the 17th century, Spanish explorers recorded the name “Teyas” for a group of natives met in the eastern Panhandle. They may have been a western Caddo group who had taken up the ways of high plains life, or they may have been Apache. But the name Teyas did not attach itself to the land.





After 1690 the land of present-day East Texas—and certain native groups as the Spanish saw them—became either “Texas” or “Tejas.”
Reply:None, check the Spanish histories.

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