Longitude: -97.069359000000
- McLennan
Cherokees attack Waco village on the Brazos, near present-day Waco. Fifty-five Wacos (Wichitas) killed in reprisal for theft of horses the previous winter. During the course of the battle, which lasted several hours, 200 mounted Tawakonis (Wichitas) came to the aid of the Wacos. The Cherokees lost two men and one 12 year-old boy.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 11-13. See also Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press), 3:412-14; J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 174-77; F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 141.
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: -97.069359000000
- McLennan
Cherokees attack Waco village on the Brazos, near present-day Waco. Fifty-five Wacos (Wichitas) killed in reprisal for theft of horses the previous winter. During the course of the battle, which lasted several hours, 200 mounted Tawakonis (Wichitas) came to the aid of the Wacos. The Cherokees lost two men and one 12 year-old boy.
- Wichitas
- Wacos
- Wichitas
- Tawakonis
- Cherokees
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 11-13. See also Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press), 3:412-14; J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 174-77; F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 141.
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