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In the aftermath of the Galveston disaster action proceeded on building the Houston Ship Channel to create a more protected inland port Houston quickly grew once the Channel was completed and rapidly became the primary port in Texas Railroads were constructed in a radial pattern to link Houston with other major cities such as Dallas-Fort Worth San Antonio and Austin. . June 15 1976 "The Rainout", 8 Corpus Christi Nueces 325,733 Main article: Education in Texas, The internationally known slogan "Don't Mess with Texas" began as an anti-littering advertisement Since the campaign's inception in 1986 the phrase has become "an identity statement a declaration of Texas swagger". As of the colonial period Texas was largely divided between 6 culture groups the Caddoan peoples occupied the area surrounding the entire length of the Red River Upon contact with Europeans they formed four collective confederacies known as the Natchitoches the Hasinai the Wichita & the Kadohadocho (Caddo) All four of them held some land in what is now Texas. Along the Gulf Coast region were the Atakapa tribes with at least one Coahuiltecan tribe (a culture group primarily from Northeast Mexico) a little further west on the Rio Grande Largely between the Rio Grande & Peco River were the Puebloan peoples part of an extensive civilization of tribes that lived in what are now the states of Texas New Mexico Colorado & Utah While the northern-most groups faced a cultural collapse due to a drought many of the southern tribes survive to the present North of the Pueblos were the Apachean tribes Although commonly referred to as one single nation they are actually a culture group. North of the Apacheans in the Northern Panhandle region were the Comanches. !

. . Comancheria before 1850 10 Corporate involvement in culture. Precipitation 129 Dennis Paul Republican 2014 Clear Lake City NASA Johnson Space Center Southeast Harris County (including Seabrook and Webster). ; . When Europeans arrived in the Texas region there were several races of Native peoples divided into many smaller tribes They were Caddoan Atakapan Athabaskan Coahuiltecan and Uto-Aztecan the Uto-Aztecan Puebloan peoples lived neared the Rio Grande in the western portion of the state the Athabaskan-speaking Apache tribes lived throughout the interior the Caddoans controlled much of the Red River region and the Atakapans were mostly centered along the Gulf Coast at least one tribe of Coahuiltecans the Aranama lived in southern Texas This entire culture group primarily centered in northeastern Mexico is now extinct It is difficult to say who lived in the northwestern region of the state originally By the time the region came to be explored it belonged to the fairly well-known Comanche another Uto-Aztecan people who had transitioned into a powerful horse culture but it is believed that they came later and did not live there during the 16th century it may have been claimed by several different peoples including Uto-Aztecans Athabaskans or even Dhegihan Siouans, The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government. Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the Texas are nonpartisan the city's elected officials are the mayor city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council the current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator executive officer and official representative and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced, (25.6) 85.2 12.2 Ship design According to the U.S Census Bureau the county has a total area of 1,777 square miles (4,600 km2) of which 1,703 square miles (4,410 km2) is land and 74 square miles (190 km2) (4.2%) is covered by water. Both its total area and land area are larger than the state of Rhode Island! .