Austin colonist on Colorado River kills one member of a party of Karankawas butchering one of his cows.
Date: June 13, 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.247303000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 131
Event Type:
Date: Mid-June 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Captain Jesse Burnam and 30 Austin colonists, shot at a canoe filled with Karankawas two miles above the mouth of the Colorado River. Eight Karankawas are killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.247303000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Citation:
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: From its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1:225-26; William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 50-53.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-June 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Commissioned by Stephen F. Austin to conduct a punitive expedition against the Karankawas for the killing of Austin colonists, Captain Randal Jones and a company of 23 settlers skirmish with Karankawas on Jones Creek, near the mouth of the Brazos River. Three whites and 15 Indians killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.980864000000
Longitude: -95.420809000000
Longitude: -95.420809000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 201-02.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: From its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1: 224-25.
Event Type:
Date: September 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Immigrants to Austin colony killed, travelling from the mouth of the Brazos River en route to the Austin colony. Karankawas are blamed for the attack.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.880805000000
Longitude: -95.380812000000
Longitude: -95.380812000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 201.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1825
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Camp of John Brown plundered, presumably by Comanches, south of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. None killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.045508000000
Longitude: -98.601780000000
Longitude: -98.601780000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 133. Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 1, part 1: 1196–97.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1825
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis, Taovayas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Wichitas (Taovaya, Tawakoni, and Waco) combined with Penateka Comanches to raid San Antonio and Goliad. An American, Dickenson, is killed.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis, Taovayas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.301150000000
Longitude: -98.372612000000
Longitude: -98.372612000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 133. Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 1, part 1: 1196–97.
Date: Early 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tawakonis (Wichitas) fight Tonkawas and Lipan Apaches at the La Bahía crossing of the Colorado River. Four Tonkawas are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.668325000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:525.
Event Type:
Date: January, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Home of Sylvanus Castleman, on the west side of the Colorado River above La Grange, plundered by Wacos (Wichitas), took bedding, a wagon cover, and table furniture. None killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.887537000000
Longitude: -96.874266000000
Longitude: -96.874266000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:469.
Castleman, Sylvanus," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca90), accessed January 14, 2016. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: February 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) The families of Elisha Flowers and Charles Cavanaugh were attacked by 70 Karankawas, near Live Oak Bayou on Old Caney Creek. Five women were killed: Cavanaugh’s wife and three daughters and Flowers’ wife Polly.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 28.744428100000
Longitude: -95.767182800000
Longitude: -95.767182800000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 209; Rachel Jenkins, "Flowers, Elisha," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21), accessed June 15, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association
Event Type:
Date: February 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of colonists led by Aylett C. Buckner kill 40-50 Karankawas near the mouth of the Colorado River, three miles east of present day Matagorda, in retaliation for attack on Cavanaugh and Flowers’ families. Sometimes referred to as the “Dressing Point” Massacre.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.691133000000
Longitude: -95.968271000000
Longitude: -95.968271000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 131.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 210.
Kelly F. Himmel, The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999), 51.
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:525.
Event Type:
Date: March 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tonkawas, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Six Choctaws kill four Tonkawas near the La Bahía Road, between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.097178000000
Longitude: -96.496353000000
Longitude: -96.496353000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed., Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:526, 2:591.
Event Type:
Date: March 25, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Colonists attack Tonkawa village in retaliation for theft of livestock. Two Tonkawas, one settler killed.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Event Type:
Date: April 4, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tawakoni (Wichita) and Kichai (Wichita) camp attacked on Colorado River, five leagues below the road to La Bahia, by combined force of 30 militiamen and Tonkawa and Lipan Indians, led by James J. Ross. Eight Tawakonis killed, including three chiefs: Cordero, Lisaque, and Guichupa.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.836852000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, part 2:1304-05. Also in Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:535.
Event Type:
Date: July 2, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) DeWitt colonist John Wightman is killed near Gonzales by party of Comanches and Tawakonis and Wacos (Wichitas).
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.501626000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 15
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Captain Henry S. Brown, commanding Mexican soldiers and colonists, attacked Waco (Wichita) village on the Brazos River, near present-day Waco. All but one are killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.498799000000
Longitude: -97.051291000000
Longitude: -97.051291000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press), 2:251-53.
Event Type:
Date: 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanche raiding party on the Brazos River attacked by Colonel James J. Ross and settlers, killing all but two (approximately 4.6 miles from Cooks Point in Burleson County).
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.635736000000
Longitude: -96.579952000000
Longitude: -96.579952000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 205-06.
Event Type:
Date: January 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) On the order of Chief Bowls, Cherokee leader Richard Fields is killed near Tiawichi Creek, one mile northwest of Pirtle, for making an alliance with the Fredonian rebels.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.304803000000
Longitude: -94.855364000000
Longitude: -94.855364000000
Citation:
Richard Drinnen, White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter, New York, Schocken Books, 1972, 220-21.
Event Type:
Date: January 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) On the order of Chief Bowls, John Dunn Hunter, an adviser to Cherokee leader Richard Fields, is killed by Cherokees on his way to Nacogdoches for his role in the Fredonian Rebellion.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.923796000000
Longitude: -94.705686000000
Longitude: -94.705686000000
Citation:
Richard Drinnen, White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter, New York: Schocken Books, 1872, 220-21.
Event Type:
Date: February 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Lipans, Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Wacos (Wichitas) and Comanches attacked Lipan Apaches and Tonkawas on San Marcos River nine miles above Gonzales, stole several hundred horses.
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Lipans, Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.518351000000
Longitude: -97.491839000000
Longitude: -97.491839000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 133; Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, part 2, 1607.
Event Type:
Date: February 1828
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Thirty-seven Tawakonis and Wacos (Wichitas), and Comanches raiding for horses attack San Felipe de Austin.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.793009000000
Longitude: -96.100793000000
Longitude: -96.100793000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 140; Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, 15-16
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