A band of eight Wacos (Wichita) is pursued and caught by a party of Caddos and Delawares on the Little River. Five Wacos are killed.
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Daniel Montague and 17 Texans attack a band of Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, and Cherokees near Warren. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, Cherokees
Gender: male
Longitude: -94.399512000000
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:219.
Rex Wallace Strickland, “History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 287-288.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Several Comanches are killed trying to cross the Rio Grande en route to Chihuahua, Mexico, which would be where the Pecos River and the Rio Grande meet, approximately 36 miles north of Del Rio.
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Longitude: -100.919037000000
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 242-43.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and Cherokees--attack Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk and 260 Texas Rangers at an abandoned Kickapoo village on Kickapoo Creek, two and a half miles southeast of present day Frankston.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Alabama/Coushatta, Cherokees
Gender: male
Longitude: -95.480488000000
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 67-78.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 2:81-82.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
A party of Indians (Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, and Caddos), with several Mexicans, kill and rob six Texians on the Old San Antonio Road, a few miles north of present-day Roma.
Tribe: Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Longitude: -99.087067000000
Smith to Forsyth, No. 162, January 1, 1840, Matamoros Consular Dispatches.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: male
Longitude: -95.605139000000
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845, Vol. 2 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:81.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Longitude: -97.934021000000
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 256.
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2: 216.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Longitude: -96.571530000000
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:291.
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Longitude: -99.029436000000
Weekly Journal, Vol. 3, No. 36, December 10, 1852.
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Longitude: -98.702632000000
Public Documents, Senate of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1877, p. 107.
State Gazette, Vol. 7, No. 13, November 17, 1855.