4.5 State government 2.5 1950s Geography, Houston Texas Business Directory 6.3 Seating capacity Pre-Columbian history The Comanche used their military power to obtain supplies and labor from the Americans Mexicans and Indians through thievery looting and killing tribute and kidnappings There was much violence committed by and against Comanche before and after the European settlement of Texas Although they made a living partially through raiding and violence along with hunting/gathering especially buffalo hunting the Comanche empire also supported a commercial network with long-distance trade Dealing with subordinate Indians the Comanche spread their language and culture across the region in terms of governance the Comanche were nearly independent but allied bands with a loosely hierarchical social organization within bands. The region also contains Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches which help contribute millions of dollars into the Deep East Texas economy Texas A&M University-Texarkana University of Texas at Tyler LeTourneau University and East Texas Baptist University are a few of the smaller universities in East Texas Texas A&M University-Commerce is right outside East Texas and is formerly known as East Texas State University while A&M-Texarkana was a branch campus of ETSU, Evel Knievel jumped 13 cars two nights in a row drawing over 100,000 spectators to the Astrodome in January 1971 and though there was talk of him making an actual jump over the stadium itself sometime in the future it never happened, The Great Plains region in central Texas spans through the state's panhandle and Llano Estacado to the state's hill country near Austin This region is dominated by prairie and steppe "Far West Texas" or the "Trans-Pecos" region is the state's Basin and Range Province the most varied of the regions this area includes Sand Hills the Stockton Plateau desert valleys wooded mountain slopes and desert grasslands.
. The Community Services Department provides community services the department maintains the 20 acres (8.1 ha) Oates Road Cemetery (also known as the Harris County Cemetery) for indigents in eastern Houston near the former Southern Bible College in March 2010 the county adopted a cremation first policy meaning that the default preference for most indigents is to have them cremated instead of buried As of 2010 the county authorized the Community Services Department to purchase about 50 acres (20 ha) of land in the Huffman area so the county will have additional spaces for indigent burials. Rice University The Commerce Towers originally developed as an office building in 1928 by Houston businessman Jesse H Jones has been converted into condominiums in addition many old office buildings and warehouses surrounding downtown have been recently converted to lofts the Humble Towers Lofts built in 1921 was originally the headquarters for Humble Oil the Beaconsfield Lofts are registered with the US Interior Department's National Register of Historic Places. .
North American University (NAU)