Longitude: -96.881919000000
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One hundred Cherokees attack a Tawakoni (Wichita) village at headwaters of the Navasota River (present day Mont Calm). Setting fire to grass houses, they shot Tawakonis as they were trying to escape, reportedly killing 26.
1. F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 141.
2. Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:162-67, 192, 210.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 9
Longitude: -96.881919000000
- Hill
One hundred Cherokees attack a Tawakoni (Wichita) village at headwaters of the Navasota River (present day Mont Calm). Setting fire to grass houses, they shot Tawakonis as they were trying to escape, reportedly killing 26.
- Cherokees
- Wichitas
- Tawakonis
1. F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 141.
2. Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:162-67, 192, 210.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 9