Stephen F. Austin provides emigrant tribes—the Coushattas, Alabamas, and Choctaws--with powder and lead to attack the Karankawas, who had been committing depredations in the colony. Locating a party of Cocos (Karankawas), they kill the chief, his son, and three other tribesmen.
Date: October 1823
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta, Choctaws/Chickasaws, Coco
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta, Choctaws/Chickasaws, Coco
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.805670000000
Longitude: -94.684611000000
Longitude: -94.684611000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 130.
Event Type:
Date: March 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tonkawas, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Six Choctaws kill four Tonkawas near the La Bahía Road, between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.097178000000
Longitude: -96.496353000000
Longitude: -96.496353000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed., Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:526, 2:591.
Event Type:
Date: 1839 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) George Dugan and a Mr. Cox, are killed in Fannin County. Two nephews of Cox, ages 12 and 14, are taken. The youths are later recovered and purchased from Choctaws in the fall of 1840.
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.475235000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:276.
Event Type:
Date: June 24, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Cherokees, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Cherokee and Kickapoo Indians attack the Tidwell family at their home on Tidwell Creek in present- day Calvert. Joseph Tidwell is killed, and his wife and three children are captured. They are ransomed from the Choctaws in U.S. Indian Territory in October.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Cherokees, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.973356000000
Longitude: -96.683021000000
Longitude: -96.683021000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:50, 55.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Indians raid the homestead of the Edward Hunter family, eight miles east of Old Warren (near present-day Ravenna). Mrs. Hunter, her youngest daughter, and a black slave woman are killed.
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.665991000000
Longitude: -96.246103000000
Longitude: -96.246103000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 100-101.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:65-66.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 397-401.
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