Was the Tonkawa Tribe a cannibal?
Some say the Tonkawas practiced ritualistic cannibalism. Some historians believe the tribe is now extinct. … Patterson says that Tonkawas did consume human flesh as a part of a ritual. Tonkawas believed in “associative magic,” that tribesmen could gain a dead person’s powers by consuming his flesh. What happened to the Tonkawa Tribe? In 1859…