Who We Are
Hello!Located in the heart of Pleasant Grove, North Carolina, our tours are proudly Indigenous-owned and operated by citizens and community members of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.
Our mission is to share the rich history, living culture, and enduring presence of the Occaneechi people through meaningful, community-centered experiences rooted in storytelling, education, and connection to the land.
We proudly employ American Indian and Occaneechi tour guides, docents, educators, and drivers who bring generations of knowledge, personal experience, and cultural understanding to every tour. Guests are not simply visiting historic places — they are learning directly from Indigenous voices connected to these lands and waterways.
Based in Pleasant Grove, our tours highlight the historic Trading Path, Indigenous villages, river systems, traditional ecological knowledge, and the continuing legacy of Native communities in North Carolina today.
Every tour helps support Indigenous-led education, cultural preservation, youth programming, and community initiatives connected to our work.
Our Story
Little Texas is more than a place on a map — it is home.
For generations, Indigenous, Black, and working families built lives here rooted in land, kinship, faith, farming, and community. Along the historic Trading Path and within the ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, families gathered, planted gardens, raised children, shared stories, and cared for one another.
But over the years, we began to watch our community change.
Land prices increased. Large-scale development pushed outward into rural communities. Historic family lands became harder to hold onto. Longtime residents were priced out, displaced, or forced to sell land that had been in their families for generations. We realized that if we did not actively invest in our own community, Little Texas could slowly disappear.
This work was born out of both love and urgency.
We created these tours and community experiences not only to share Occaneechi history and culture, but to help sustain a living community. Every tour supports Indigenous-led economic development, cultural preservation, education, land stewardship, and opportunities for local families and youth.
By creating jobs for American Indian and Occaneechi guides, educators, drivers, artists, and storytellers, we are helping keep knowledge, resources, and opportunity within the community itself.
We believe preservation is more than protecting artifacts or historic sites. Preservation means keeping communities alive. It means making sure future generations can still gather here, learn here, work here, and belong here.
Our vision is to create a future where Little Texas remains a place rooted in culture, community, and connection to the land — not erased by unchecked development or gentrification.
When you visit, you are not just taking a tour.
You are helping invest in a living Indigenous community, supporting local families, and becoming part of the effort to protect the stories, lands, and relationships that make this place sacred.