Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Texas-Indian Wars, Kiowa people, Medicine Lodge Treaty, Trial of Satanta and Big Tree, Native American tribes in Nebraska, Devils Tower National Monument, Meusebach-Comanche Treaty, Dohasan, Horace Poolaw, Chris Wondolowski, Kiowa Five, Neighbors Expedition, Gourd Dance, Lone Wolf, Sitting Bear, James Auchiah, Teri Greeves, Stephen Mopope, Richard Aitson, Lois Smoky, N. Scott Momaday, Monroe Tsatoke, Jack Hokeah, T. C. Cannon, Spencer Asah, Blackbear Bosin, Kiowa music, Silver Horn, Koitsenko, Kicking Bird, Parker McKenzie, Tom Mauchahty-Ware, White Horse, Carrie Sahmaunt, The Way to Rainy Mountain, Indian City USA, Red Warbonnet, Cozad Singers, Winter-Telling Stories, Vanessa Jennings. Excerpt: The Texas-Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and Plains Indians. These conflicts began when the first settlers moved into Spanish Texas, and continued through Texas's time as part of Mexico, as its own nation, Republic of Texas, and did not end until 30 years after Texas joined the United States. This article covers the conflicts from 1820, just before Mexico gained independence from Spain, until 1875, when the last free band of Plains Indians, the Comanches led by Quahadi warrior Quanah Parker, surrendered and moved to the Fort Sill reservation in Oklahoma. The half-century struggle between the Plains tribes and the Texans became particularly intense after the Spanish, and then Mexicans, left power in Texas, and the Republic of Texas, and then the United States, opposed the tribes. Their war with the Plains Indians became one of deep animosity, slaughter, and, in the end, near-total conquest. Although the outcome was lop-sided, the violence of the wars were not. When he recovered Cynthia Ann Parker at Pease River, Sul Ross observed that her recovery would be felt in every family in Texas, ..