d the same with Public Law 90-287. It read:“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Indians now living in El Paso County, Texas who are descendants of the Tiwa Indians of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo settling in Texas as Ysleta in 1682 shall from and after the ratification of this Act, be known and designated as the Tiwa Indians of Ysleta, Texas, ad shall continue to enjoy all of the rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by them as citizens of the State of Texas and of the United States before the enactment of this Act and shall continue to be subject to all the obligations and duties of such citizens under the laws of the State of Texas and the United States. .Section 2. - Responsibility, if any for the Tiwa Indians of Ysleta del Sur hereby transferred to the State of Texas. Nothing in this Act shall make such tribe or its members eligible for any services preformed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians nor subject the United States to any responsibility, liability, claim, or demand of any nature to or by such tribe or its members arising out of their status as Indians and none of the Statutes of the United States which effect Indians because if their status as Indians shall applicable to the Tiwa Indians of Ysleta de Sur. Nothing herein shall preclude the application to the people of Tiwa Indians of programs undertaken pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 508), as heretofore or hereafter amended.”Basically the federal government recognized the Tigua, but took no responsibility for them. They instead relinquished their welfare to the state, who now had to take of them. To this day unfortunately there are those who do not believe that the Tigua are an Indian tribe. They right them off as poor Mexicans who have manipulated the system. The fight for the Tigua is far from over.Since there recogn...
