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.
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 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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Date: February 22, 1856
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. troops led by Capt. James Oakes attack a small party of Wichita (Waco) warriors at the headwaters of the Nueces River, near present-day Rocksprings. Three Wacos are killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.019080000000
Longitude: -100.079379000000
Longitude: -100.079379000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 42.
Event Type:
Date: May 23, 1859
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos, Tonkawas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A white mob led by John R. Baylor kills an elderly Indian man and woman on the Brazos Indian Reserve, three miles east of Graham. The murders incite a group of several dozen Caddos, Wichitas (Wacos) and Tonkawas to leave the reservation in pursuit of Baylor’s men.
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos, Tonkawas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.107671000000
Longitude: -98.541691000000
Longitude: -98.541691000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), 161-162.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 170.
Date: February 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Nine Waco Indians (Wichitas) kill William Youngblood in northwest Parker County.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.932822000000
Longitude: -97.944451000000
Longitude: -97.944451000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 75.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521-522.
Event Type:
Date: February 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A group of settlers tracks a raiding party of Wacos (Wichitas), believed to have been responsible for the murder of William Youngblood a few days earlier, to the East Fork of Keechi Creek, eleven miles north of present-day Mineral Wells. They attack and kill at least four.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.946347000000
Longitude: -98.219635000000
Longitude: -98.219635000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 76-77.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521-522.
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