A Mexican force of approximately 150 men burn Waco and Tawakoni villages along the Brazos River near present-day Waco.
Date: August 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.518549000000
Longitude: -97.065475000000
Longitude: -97.065475000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 141.
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Date: 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Mexican troops attack Tawakonis (Wichita) on San Gabriel River (then known as the San Xavier River). Eight Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.689877000000
Longitude: -97.170599000000
Longitude: -97.170599000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
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Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Captain Manuel Lafuente and two hundred Mexican troops attack a Tawakoni (Wichita) hunting camp at Cowhouse Creek, above the creek’s intersection with the Leon River, fifteen miles northwest of present-day Belton. Eight Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.291450000000
Longitude: -97.483925000000
Longitude: -97.483925000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
Brian Delay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S. Mexican War (Yale University Press, 2008), 35-37.
Event Type:
Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Fleeing westward after an attack by Mexican troops on their camp at Cowhouse Creek earlier in November, a band of Tawakonis (Wichita) is pursued and attacked by a force of two hundred Mexican troops between the Llano and Pedernales rivers.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.581910000000
Longitude: -98.297695000000
Longitude: -98.297695000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142.
Event Type:
Date: October 23, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Presidial troops from San Antonio encounter and defeat a group of Comanches and Tawakonis (Wichitas) near the San Saba mission (four miles west of present-day Menard) that had been committing depredations on the frontier. A herd of livestock is recovered. Nine Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.922203000000
Longitude: -99.800015000000
Longitude: -99.800015000000
Citation:
Antonio Elosua to Manuel Rudencindo Barragan, November 9, 1832, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Foster Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
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Date: 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White David Ridgway is killed by Indians, probably Wacos or Tawakonis (Wichitas) halfway between Fort Milam (four miles southwest of present-day Marlin) and the Brazos Falls.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.238087000000
Longitude: -97.009586000000
Longitude: -97.009586000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 219.
Event Type:
Date: July 12, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tawakonis (Wichita) living near the headwaters of the Navasota River (near present day Mount Calm) repulse an attack by Robert M. Coleman and 20-25 settlers. One Texan is killed (John Williams), and four wounded. Two Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.752773000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: August-September 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John H. Moore leads 175 colonists on a two month campaign against the Tawakonis (Wichita). Skirmishes with Tawakonis near the headwaters of the Trinity River near present-day Dallas result in two Indians killed, including a female prisoner.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.677784000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:21-29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: from its First Settlement in 1865 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1:352.
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 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: April 17, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 100 Tawakonis (Wichita) steal 32 horses from Juan Seguín’s rangers near Las Cuevas (Natural Bridge Caverns) north of San Antonio. Seguín’s men pursue and engage the Tawakonis and retrieve horses with no losses to either side.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.692175000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 169.
Event Type:
Date: October 8, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 23 Anglo surveyors is attacked by 300 Indians including Kickapoo, Tawakoni and Waco (Wichita), and Caddo, one mile west of present-day Dawson. At least 16 surveyors and thirty Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.860766000000
Longitude: -96.829080000000
Longitude: -96.829080000000
Citation:
Jimmy L. Bryan, “More Disastrous than All: The Surveyors’ Fight: 1838,” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 1, issue 6, 3-14.
Event Type:
Date: March 10, 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Having briefly occupied San Antonio, retreating Mexican troops commanded by Gen. Rafael Vasquez encounter a party of Wichita Indians (Wacos and Tawakonis) on the Medina River. Between eight and ten Indians are killed.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.355064000000
Longitude: -98.872582000000
Longitude: -98.872582000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas – Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas Press), 52.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-May 1846
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White After stealing horses from a ranger company, a party of eleven Wichita (Tawakoni) Indians is pursued and overtaken at the Medina River. Three are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.364401000000
Longitude: -98.895773000000
Longitude: -98.895773000000
Citation:
Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, May 27, 1846
Event Type:
Date: February 24, 1850
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Lt. Walter Hudson and a dozen rangers track down a band of roughly sixty Wichitas (Tawakonis) seen near Fort McIntosh, finding find them in the vicinity of Artesia Wells. The rangers wound one Tawakoni before the Indians retreat. They found a Mexican boy the Indians had captured.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.281189000000
Longitude: -99.285927000000
Longitude: -99.285927000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), 110.
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