GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.757616000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
County:
- Anderson
Date:
July 1844
Time Period:
Description:
A hunting party of six Delaware Indians is robbed by white horse thieves near Fort Sam Houston, two miles east of resent-day Palestine. All but one Indian is killed. Fearing reprisals, white residents pursue the thieves, apprehending two men, who are taken to the place where the murders occurred and hanged.
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845, Vol. 2 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:81.
Delaware Indian Original Title: Delawares. Delawares: Peuplade de l'Indianaiemigrée u Texas dans les 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 10
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.757616000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
County:
- Anderson
Date:
July 1844
Event Description:
A hunting party of six Delaware Indians is robbed by white horse thieves near Fort Sam Houston, two miles east of resent-day Palestine. All but one Indian is killed. Fearing reprisals, white residents pursue the thieves, apprehending two men, who are taken to the place where the murders occurred and hanged.
Tribe:
- Delawares
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845, Vol. 2 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:81.
Delaware Indian Original Title: Delawares. Delawares: Peuplade de l'Indianaiemigrée u Texas dans les 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 10