Wichitas (Taovaya, Tawakoni, and Waco) combined with Penateka Comanches to raid San Antonio and Goliad. An American, Dickenson, is killed.
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 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: March 23, 1853
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Taovayas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. troops under Capt. Henry H. Sibley detain a party of more than twenty Wichitas (Taovayas) at Fort Belknap. Preferring death to imprisonment, Taovaya chief Koweaka kills his wife and child, then rushes his guards, and is killed.
Tribe: Taovayas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.151072000000
Longitude: -98.740851000000
Longitude: -98.740851000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996), 36.
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), 120-121.
South-Western American, Vol. 4., No. 44, April 13, 1853.
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