Tawakoni (Wichita) and Kichai (Wichita) camp attacked on Colorado River, five leagues below the road to La Bahia, by combined force of 30 militiamen and Tonkawa and Lipan Indians, led by James J. Ross. Eight Tawakonis killed, including three chiefs: Cordero, Lisaque, and Guichupa.
Date: April 4, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.836852000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, part 2:1304-05. Also in Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:535.
Event Type:
Date: 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonists skirmish with Wacos (Wichita) and Kichais (Wichita) on Caney Creek, near present-day Athens. Seven Indians and one colonist (William Cooper) are killed.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.234458000000
Longitude: -95.906633000000
Longitude: -95.906633000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. Maclean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 5:40.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 208-09.
Event Type:
Date: March 21, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John Edwards, a wagoner, killed by Kichai (Wichita) Indians near Bastrop on the road to Washington on the Brazos.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.097356000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 26.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:394.
“Murder by the Indians!” The Texas Republican, March 21, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 231.
Event Type:
Date: May 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Searching for stolen horses, a company of two dozen settlers led by Major William Oldham attacks and burns a Kichai (Wichita) village on Boggy Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, five miles south of present-day Centerville. Two Kichai Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.211879000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:393-94.
Event Type:
Date: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Seventeen Anglo settlers are attacked by a party of 50 Kichai (Wichita) and Tawakonis (Wichita) on the road to Nashville near Smith’s Crossing of the Little River, near present-day Cameron. Parson Crouch and Robert Davidson are killed; cattle are killed or driven off.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.854434000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 43-44.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 143-46.
Event Type:
Date: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Henry Walker farmhouse is attacked by Wichitas - Kichai and Tawakonis, eight miles east of present day Cameron; no known casualties.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.829772000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 146-47.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:43-44.
Date: November 3, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen and 18 Texas Rangers encounter a party of Cherokees led by several Kichai (Wichita) scouts en route to trade with the Comanches near the forks of the Brazos River (the confluence of Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork), 50 miles west of present-day Throckmorton.
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.267895000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:267-68.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 143.
Event Type:
Date: November 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.576216000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-April 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A hunter for surveying parties (Holland), is killed near Fort Parker by Kichais (Wichitas) or Wacos (Wichitas).
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.595014000000
Longitude: -96.531574000000
Longitude: -96.531574000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A mounted party of Kichais (Wichitas) or Wacos (Wichitas) attacks a surveying party near Richland Creek, 12 miles west of present-day Corsicana. Three surveyors are killed: Robert Sparks, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Hunter.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.100976000000
Longitude: -96.620979000000
Longitude: -96.620979000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:7-8.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:419-20, 4:58-59.
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838, May 2, 1838.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 360.
Event Type:
Date: August 26, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A spy company under the command of George B. Erath encounters two Kichai (Wichita) Indians skinning a buffalo on the Bosque River, a few miles northwest of present-day Waco. One Indian is killed; the other is severely wounded.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.657827000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:133-34
Event Type:
Date: July 19, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Toweash, Kichais, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A band of Wichitas attempts to steal horses of Lipan Apaches encamped on the Leon River, above Little River Fort. One Wichita (Toweash) is killed, one Wichita (Kaichai) is taken prisoner.
Tribe: Toweash, Kichais, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.017530000000
Longitude: -97.403646000000
Longitude: -97.403646000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, June 22, 1843
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 54.
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