A band of eight Wacos (Wichita) is pursued and caught by a party of Caddos and Delawares on the Little River. Five Wacos are killed.
Date: August 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.953387000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Event Type:
Date: May 16, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Daniel Montague and 17 Texans attack a band of Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, and Cherokees near Warren. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.613189000000
Longitude: -94.399512000000
Longitude: -94.399512000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:219.
Rex Wallace Strickland, “History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 287-288.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Several Comanches are killed trying to cross the Rio Grande en route to Chihuahua, Mexico, which would be where the Pecos River and the Rio Grande meet, approximately 36 miles north of Del Rio.
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.865974000000
Longitude: -100.919037000000
Longitude: -100.919037000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 242-43.
Date: October 16, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Alabama/Coushatta, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and Cherokees--attack Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk and 260 Texas Rangers at an abandoned Kickapoo village on Kickapoo Creek, two and a half miles southeast of present day Frankston.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Alabama/Coushatta, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.017935000000
Longitude: -95.480488000000
Longitude: -95.480488000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 67-78.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 2:81-82.
Event Type:
Date: December 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Indians (Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, and Caddos), with several Mexicans, kill and rob six Texians on the Old San Antonio Road, a few miles north of present-day Roma.
Tribe: Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 26.498619000000
Longitude: -99.087067000000
Longitude: -99.087067000000
Citation:
Smith to Forsyth, No. 162, January 1, 1840, Matamoros Consular Dispatches.
Event Type:
Date: July 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) 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.
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.757616000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
Longitude: -95.605139000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845, Vol. 2 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:81.
Date: February, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three Comanches are killed by a renegade band of Delaware Indians led by Jack Ned at the headwaters of the San Marcos River.
Tribe: Comanches, Delawares
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.890234000000
Longitude: -97.934021000000
Longitude: -97.934021000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 256.
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2: 216.
Event Type:
Date: June, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) An Indian, believed to be Delaware, is killed by whites on the Trinity River south of present-day Dallas.
Tribe: Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.568589000000
Longitude: -96.571530000000
Longitude: -96.571530000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:291.
Event Type:
Date: November 30, 1852
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Believing a Delaware Indian had assisted Comanches in a raid, a crowd of German settlers shoot the Indian to death at the settlement of Quihi, ten miles west of Castroville.
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.393869000000
Longitude: -99.029436000000
Longitude: -99.029436000000
Citation:
Weekly Journal, Vol. 3, No. 36, December 10, 1852.
Date: Late October 1855
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Delawares set out from Fort Belknap to track down Comanches that had stolen dozens of their horses. The Delawares encounter a party of Comanches ten miles south of the Red River. Seven or eight Comanches are reported killed.
Tribe: Delawares, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.992618000000
Longitude: -98.702632000000
Longitude: -98.702632000000
Citation:
Public Documents, Senate of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1877, p. 107.
State Gazette, Vol. 7, No. 13, November 17, 1855.
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