A party of Lipan Apaches kill two residents of San Antonio.
Date: Early 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.399088000000
Longitude: -98.622415000000
Longitude: -98.622415000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
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Date: Early 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Lipan Apaches attack a small Spanish force on the Frio River, seizing all their horses and killing four soldiers.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.142275000000
Longitude: -99.555026000000
Longitude: -99.555026000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
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Date: March 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Lipan Apaches, Tawakonis (Wichitas), and Comanches raid San Antonio, killing four Bexareños.
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.424122000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 110.
Event Type:
Date: Early April 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A group of Tawakonis (Wichitas) launch a night time raid on San Antonio. Two Tawakonis are killed by a sentinel.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.424122000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 110.
Event Type:
Date: Late April 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Indians kill nine Spanish soldiers in the hills north of San Antonio.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.424122000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska 2006), 110.
Event Type:
Date: July 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Lipan Apaches attack two hundred Spanish troops and fifty militiamen leaving La Bahía (Goliad). In retaliation, Spanish troops kill eight Apaches in an assault on a Lipan rancheria
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.661395000000
Longitude: -97.388434000000
Longitude: -97.388434000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
Event Type:
Date: May 1821
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Karankawas kill five American sailors shipwrecked on the northern end of Padre Island.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.628434000000
Longitude: -97.226379000000
Longitude: -97.226379000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska 2006), 111.
Event Type:
Date: September 1822
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three colonists left to guard supplies at the mouth of the Colorado River. They were never found; Karankawas suspected.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.602430000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
Citation:
Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 6, no. 3, January 1903, 236-237, 247.
Event Type:
Date: Late December 1822
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two colonists, Rogers and Hines, murdered near Atascocito crossing of Colorado River, en route to San Antonio. Two Mexican deserters are arrested for the murders.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.706444000000
Longitude: -96.537144000000
Longitude: -96.537144000000
Citation:
Ernest W. Winkler, ed. Manuscript Letters and Documents of Early Texians 1821-1845, 24-25
Event Type:
Date: February 23, 1823
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Coco
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Coco Indians (Karankawas) kill two members of Austin’s colony, Loy (or Law) and John C. Alley, who had tried to stop them from stealing a corn-filled pirogue on the Colorado River, near the mouth of Skull Creek and ten miles south of present-day Columbus.
Tribe: Coco
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.532235000000
Longitude: -96.406754000000
Longitude: -96.406754000000
Citation:
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 38-40. F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 128. J. W. Wilbarger, , Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 200-01.
Event Type:
Date: July 6, 1823
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonist John J. Tumlinson Sr. is killed by Karankawas and Wacos (Wichitas) near the present town of Seguin; colonist Joseph Newman escapes.
Tribe: Karankawas, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.568841000000
Longitude: -97.964727000000
Longitude: -97.964727000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 204-05.
Event Type:
Date: September 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Immigrants to Austin colony killed, travelling from the mouth of the Brazos River en route to the Austin colony. Karankawas are blamed for the attack.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.880805000000
Longitude: -95.380812000000
Longitude: -95.380812000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 201.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1825
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Camp of John Brown plundered, presumably by Comanches, south of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. None killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.045508000000
Longitude: -98.601780000000
Longitude: -98.601780000000
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.
Event Type:
Date: January, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Home of Sylvanus Castleman, on the west side of the Colorado River above La Grange, plundered by Wacos (Wichitas), took bedding, a wagon cover, and table furniture. None killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.887537000000
Longitude: -96.874266000000
Longitude: -96.874266000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:469.
Castleman, Sylvanus," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca90), accessed January 14, 2016. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: February 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) The families of Elisha Flowers and Charles Cavanaugh were attacked by 70 Karankawas, near Live Oak Bayou on Old Caney Creek. Five women were killed: Cavanaugh’s wife and three daughters and Flowers’ wife Polly.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 28.744428100000
Longitude: -95.767182800000
Longitude: -95.767182800000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 209; Rachel Jenkins, "Flowers, Elisha," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21), accessed June 15, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association
Event Type:
Date: July 2, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) DeWitt colonist John Wightman is killed near Gonzales by party of Comanches and Tawakonis and Wacos (Wichitas).
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.501626000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 15
Event Type:
Date: 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanche raiding party on the Brazos River attacked by Colonel James J. Ross and settlers, killing all but two (approximately 4.6 miles from Cooks Point in Burleson County).
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.635736000000
Longitude: -96.579952000000
Longitude: -96.579952000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 205-06.
Event Type:
Date: February 1828
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Thirty-seven Tawakonis and Wacos (Wichitas), and Comanches raiding for horses attack San Felipe de Austin.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.793009000000
Longitude: -96.100793000000
Longitude: -96.100793000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 140; Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, 15-16
Event Type:
Date: February 1828
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Thirty-seven Tawakonis, and Wacos (Wichitas), and Comanches raiding for horses attack Gonzales.
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.501626000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 140; Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, 15-16.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1828
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Sixteen Tawakonis and Wacos (Wichitas) kill a Mexican resident of Austin’s colony on the Colorado River. Militia responds and kills eight Indians.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.693421000000
Longitude: -96.479530000000
Longitude: -96.479530000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 141.
Event Type: