The 2012 Multicultural Festival at Livingston Junior High included tribal dancers from the Alabama- Coushatta Nation, representing two of the fi rst cultures to make Polk County their home. The Alabama and Coushatta were two distinct tribes who arrived along the Trinity River in the 1780s and settled together on the reservation that straddles the boundary between Polk County and Tyler County. They now live as one tribe numbering more than 1,000 members. Event organizer Col. Howard Daniel reports that hundreds of people attended Monday night’s event.