Nestled deep in the Big Thicket area of East Texas lies Texas' oldest Indian Reservation, home of the Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes.
All homes have electricity.
The reservation also has its own water system and sewage disposal plant. Over half of the residents have telephones in their homes. Each family has access to transportation through their own personal vehicles or relatives with vehicles. One hundred new brick homes have been built on the Reservation through a Mutual Help Housing Project administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This project offers home ownership to residents of the Reservation for the first time.