Native American Tribe series.
Yojuane
Labeled by several names including the Diujuan, Iacovane, Iojuan, Joyvan, Yacavan, Yocuana, and Yujuane, they were a Tonkawan people, who ranged over a large area in east central Texas. Originally, their territory extended from the Colorado River east of present-day Austin northward to the Red River. However, as more and more white settlers came to the area in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Yojuane were largely confined to the southern portion of this range. Throughout the 18th century the Yojuane shared the common Tonkawan hatred for the Apache Indians, and there is evidence of early hostilities with the Hasinai tribe, as well.
They were at San Francisco Xavier de Horcasitas Mission near the site of present Rockdale between 1748 and 1756. By the mid 1800s, they were generally included among the bands of the Tonkawa, who were assembled on the Brazos Indian Reservation in the area of of present-day Young County. In 1859; however, they were moved to a reservation in Indian Territory. After the Civil War some of the Tonkawa returned to northern Texas, where they lived until 1884, at which time they were forced back onto the reservation in Oklahoma. Today the Tonkawa Indians are extinct as an ethnic group.