Reservoir dogs can pull catfish out of slow-moving southern streams and swampy lakes. The historically curious can wander amidst old sawmill ruins and a reconstruction of the Mission Tejas chapel originally built in 1690. Spaniards established missions in the region to convert the Nabedache Indians to Christianity. The Spanish called the Indians Tejas, which is the Nabedache word for friends. Tejas, transliterated as Texas, was adopted as the region's name, as well as the subsequent republic and state.