The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier. The Antelope Hills Expedition further expanded into the Battle of Little Robe Creek. [73] According to author Gary Anderson, the Rangers believed the Indians were at best subhumans who "had no right of soil" and savaged pure, noble, and innocent settlers. Guipago, Manyi-ten, Tsen-tainte and Mamanti were sent to Fort Marion. Carson, Paul H., Dr., and Tom Crum. Volunteers from Gonzales, Texas, under Mathew Caldwell and from Bastrop under Ed Burleson, with all the ranger companies of east and central Texas, moved to intercept the Indians. To avenge what the Comanche viewed as a bitter betrayal by the Texans, the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump raised a huge war party of many of the bands of the Comanche, and raided deep into white-settled areas of Southeast Texas. In November Neighbors went to the Penateka winter camp and persuaded Buffalo Hump and the far more malleable Shanaco, Ketumse and Asa-havey to go and settle in the reserve, but Yellow Wolf, who was still pressing for the recognition of a border between Texas and Comancheria, left the council, flatly refusing to go. Many tribes in Texas, such as the Karankawan, Akokisa, Bidai and others, were destroyed by disease and conflicts with settlers. [45] As war chief of the Penatucka Comanches, Buffalo Hump dealt peacefully with American officials throughout the late 1840s and 1850s. Under the change, many slaves in Mexico were reclassified as indentured servants, with the longterm goal of freedom. Although Texan military force was much stronger than previous Mexican colonists, the sheer rapidity of advance and large numbers of the raiders overwhelmed many of these early Texan colonists. He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when he led the Comanches on the Great Raid of 1840 . Yellow copper rings decorated his arms and a string of beads hung from his neck. Early life [ edit] The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest Indian raid on White cities in the history of what is now the United Statesthough technically when it occurred it was in the Republic of Texas and not in the United States. During Colonial Mexico, members of new cultures entered and settled in the area; through competition for resources and power, they became adversaries. [5], Thomas J. Pilgrim took part in the Battle of Plum Creek.[6][7]. University of Oklahoma Press. The document was presented to the Texas State Library in 1972, where it remains on display. In all other new states, the federal government controlled both public lands and Indian affairs and so could make treaties guaranteeing reservations for various groups. In August 1843, a temporary treaty accord led to a ceasefire between the Comanches and their allies, and the Texians. Unfortunately, the boundary provision was deleted by the Texas Senate in ratifying the final version. Meusebach raised a private mounted company including well-armed Germans and Mexicans, to protect American surveyors, who subsequently set out from Fredericksburg on January 22, 1847. In addition, Texas officials insisted that the Comanches abandon Central Texas, cease interfering with Texan settlements, cease conspiring with Mexicans, and avoid all white settlements. As a result the Texan-Comanche relationship turned violent. Nokoni chief Horseback, who had family members among the Indian prisoners, took the initiative in persuading the Comanches to trade stolen livestock and white captives, including Clinton Smith, in exchange for their own women and children.[64]. Sent back to Fort Sill in 1879, Guipago died of malaria in July 1879. The raid in August 1840 by Penateka Comanches, led by war chief Buffalo Hump, on Victoria and the Port of Linnville, on Lavaca Bay, Texas, is said to be the largest raid by American Indians on cities in U.S. history (Texas was at the time still a republic). With Quanah Parker wounded, the Indians gave up the attack. Survivors, especially James W. Parker, called for vengeance and help to recover the captives. Some of their number will be dispatched as messengers to the tribe to inform them that those detained, will be held as hostages until the Prisoners are delivered up, then the hostages will be released.[30]. Quanah was never an official chief since the United States government appointed him to the position. Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsnakwahip "Buffalo Bull's Back") (born c. 1800 died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche Indians. Battle of Bandera Pass; Big Red Meat; Battle of Blanco Canyon; Buffalo Hump; Buffalo Hunters' War; Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877; C. Comanche campaign; Comanche-Mexico Wars; Council . In Texas, however, the federal government could not do this. The Mesoamerica civilization was centered south of Texas. Among the chiefs who did not attend were Buffalo Hump, the Comanche war chief who would lead the Great Raid of 1840 in retaliation for the killings, and the other two principal Penateka war chiefs, Yellow Wolf, his cousin and alter-ego, and Santa Anna, who sided with him in leading the raid. Comanche peoples are Native Americans who lived in an area called the Comancheria. [17] Fredericksburg borders on the grant, but does not fall within the grant itself. (2012). [4] [71] The Akokisas may have been absorbed into other tribes at the wake of the Texas Revolution,[72] while members of the Bidai joined neighboring tribes after epidemics reduced their numbers by over half. After the Republic was created, this trend continued. On this raid the Comanches went all the way from the plains of west Texas to the cities of Victoria and Linnville on the Texas coast. Most of the loot they took was recovered, and the Texans involved in the battle suffered only one death. 15,700km) between the Llano River and Colorado River, in the heart of the Comancheria. Altogether as many as a thousand Comanche may have set out from West Texas on the Great Raid. His son, Peta Nocona, became a chief himself. On November 12 Carson's force, supplied with two mountain howitzers under the command of Lt. George H. Pettis, twenty-seven wagons, an ambulance, and forty-five days' rations, proceeded down the Canadian River into the Texas Panhandle. The Indians saw the wagon-trains as trespassers who killed buffalo and other game the Indians needed to survive. The Comanche were known as fierce warriors, with a reputation for looting, burning, murdering, and kidnapping as far south as Mexico City. He then finished his speech with the comment, "how do you like that answer? The resulting battle concluded with 50 killed on the United States side and 76 killed and 16 captured on the Comanche side. [29] The prominent Penateka chief and medicine man Mukwooru ("Spirit Talker") was in charge of the delegation. [52], Approximately two hours after daybreak on November 26, Carson's cavalry attacked a Kiowa village of 150 lodges. This is where Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma and most of Northern and Southern Texas are today. The best routes to drive the cattle run straight through the Comanche territory. This caused Buffalo Hump to agree with Yellow Wolf (who had proved himself to have a more realistic view than Buffalo Hump in evaluating the settlers' concern for a fair and lasting peace) and Santa Annas suspicions of the Texans motives, changing his stance to align himself with his cousin and the third war chief, and repudiate the treaty, and hostilities soon resumed. His destruction of the Indians' horses, 1,000 of them in Tule Canyon, destroyed the Indians' resistance by taking the last of their prized possessions, their horses, along with destroying their homes and food supplies. Mackenzie, in the most daring and decisive battle of the campaign, destroyed five Indian villages on September 28, 1874, in Palo Duro Canyon. The war party burned one city to the ground. [12], In the 1820s, seeking additional colonists as a means of conquering the area, Mexico reached an agreement with Austin reauthorizing his Spanish land grants. Five white men managed to escape, one of which was Thomas Brazeale[61]:80 who reached Fort Richardson on foot, some 20 miles away. Leaving Victoria August 7, 1840, the Comanches continued on toward Linnville camping the night on Placido (now Placedo) Creek on the ranch of Plcido Benavides, about twelve miles from Linnville.[9]. Three units arrived, led by Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, Captain J.J. Cureton, and First Sergeant John W. Spangler. Because Comanche raiding was based on taking booty and captives, the proximity of American communities' proved more fruitful to Comanche raiding. [10] The town of Linnville never recovered from the Great Raid, most of its residents moving to Port Lavaca, the new settlement established on the bay three and one half miles southwest by displaced Linnville residents. Print. [9] Buffalo Hump went on to the Commanche Reservation in 1856, but left after two years of starvation, fleeing to the Wichita Mountains where his band was attacked by U.S. troops, who forced them back on to the reservation. By the early 19th century, as a result of the Comanche wars, the Mexican wars of Independence, and the collapse of colonial power, Mexican resistance to Comanche attacks had almost collapsed. [29] The most notable Penateka war chief Potsnakwahip ("Buffalo Hump") disagreed with this decision and did not trust Lamar or his representatives. Peta Nocona was the father of the last Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, as well as a Comanche Chief who played a crucial part in the Indian Wars. [17] Houston had spent much of his childhood with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee, among them Cherokee Chief Bowles. 2 Apr. Convinced, however, that the Indians would never be safe in Texas, he determined to move them to safety in the Indian territories. Friendly Tosawi and Asa-havey led the Penateka to Fort Sill; Kiyou probably judged wiser to go, with his friendly Nokoni band, to the Wichita agency. [12] Most of the village's inhabitants were captured, but the Quahadi Comanche warriors arriving from a nearby village, led by Quanah, induced the soldiers to quickly retreat. At the time of the Texas Revolution, there were 30,000 Anglo nomadic colonists and Mexican mestizos in Texas, and approximately 20,000 Comanches, plus thousands each of Cherokee, Shawnee, Coushatta, and a dozen other tribes. [46] Up until the introduction of repeating rifles and revolvers, weapons and tactics were definitely on the side of the Plains Indians, most especially the Comanche. Killing Indians became government policy when President Lamar prescribed "an exterminating war" of "total extinction". More recently, he played the lead role in films addressing more contemporary issues facing aboriginal and Native American people: Skins (2002), Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (2003) and One Dead Indian (2006). Houston then expanded it to all tribes except the Comanche, who still wanted permanent war. This campaign was meant to enforce their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. 2014. Archaeologists have found that three major indigenous cultures lived in this region and reached their developmental peak before the first European contact. At least one Texian spectator was killed. In March 1875 Mackenzie assumed command at Fort Sill and control over the Comanche-Kiowa and Cheyenne-Arapaho reservations. While they are on this mission, Comanche chief Buffalo Hump takes his warriors on the warpath. Scouts reported the presence of a large Indian encampment at Adobe Walls, and Carson ordered his cavalry forward, to be followed by the wagons and howitzers. The first was the attack on the sleeping village. As the epidemic was very severe, the Comanche temporarily suspended raids, and some Comanche divisions were disbanded. Sherman and Mackenzie searched for the warriors responsible for the raid. Although only a dozen bodies were recovered, the Texans reported killing 80 Comanches, and the war party losses were probably higher than normal. Inclement weather, including an early snow storm, caused slow progress, and on November 25, the First Cavalry reached Mule Springs in Moore County, approximately 30 miles west of Adobe Walls. In February, 1877, they, and their Apache allies, began attacking buffalo . After the Civil War, Texas' growing cattle industry managed to regain much of its economy. During the period of 1821 to 1835, colonists had difficulty with Comanche raids, despite the formation of full-time militia ranger companies in 1823. In March 1843, Houston reached agreement with the Delaware, Wichitas, and other tribes. For example, in 1826 Comanches raided and burned Green DeWitt's new town of Gonzales to the ground. [46], The relationship between the federal government, Texas and the native tribes was further complicated by a unique legal issue which arose as a result of Texas' annexation. On the way back from the sea the Comanches were confronted by Texas rangers and militia in a fight called the Battle of Plum Creek (near the modern town of Lockhart). The remainder of the Lamar presidency was spent in daring but exhausting round of raids and rescue attempts, managing to recover several dozen more captives. General Augur then summoned Mackenzie to San Antonio where they held a strategy meeting. Linnville was the second largest port in Texas at that time. The first battle of Adobe Walls occurred on November 26, 1864, in the vicinity of Adobe Walls, the ruins of William Bent's abandoned adobe trading post and saloon near the Canadian River in Hutchinson County, Texas. The Council House Fight was a Peace delegation turned conflict between the Comanche delegates and the Texas officials on March 19, 1840. Other tribes, such as the Comanche and Kiowa, continued to use that part of the Indian Territories that was the Comancheria to live in while raiding white settlements in Texas. Although most of these early Americans were ultimately killed, executed or driven from Texas by Spanish authorities during the Green Flag Republic, the Comanche's subsequent raids deep into Mexico showed the practicality of Americans in holding the frontier. During the journey, Loving had to separate from the group to scout ahead. The novels and miniseries follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century. Buffalo Hump has also been portrayed by Horacio Garca Rojas in the History Channel series Texas Rising and by Wesley French in the German-language film In einem wilden Land (Striving for Freedom). But greed saved the Comanches in turn; when the militia discovered the stolen bullion, they abandoned the fight, divided their loot, and went home. Ortiz further claimed that army columns could successfully maneuver in that country. He assured the Texians that he felt the other captives would be able to be ransomed, but it would be in exchange for a great deal of supplies, including ammunition and blankets. Seeing the soldiers arriving, Tahka, the war chief, led the Comanche warriors in a charge, but he was killed and the village and the stocks were destroyed. They sent a delegation of 65 people, with a dozen chiefs of several bands and several women too, led by Mukwooru and Kwihnai (Eagle), under a white flag of truce as they understood ambassadors should do. "Sorrow Whispers in the Winds: The Republic of Texas's Comanche Policy." The conflict started over negotiations regarding Texan and Mexican captives that the Comanches were holding in order to gain back sections of Comancheria that Texas had claimed. [46], On September 28 near McClellan Creek in Gray County, Texas, the 4th U.S. Cavalry under Colonel Mckenzie attacked a village of Kotsoteka Comanche. Catherine LaLoup Leon The Surrounded Chief Buffalo may refer to any number of people: Ojibwe. 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas. The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as the Comanche war party returned to west Texas. The republic could not support the huge cost of a standing army for defense, and it might not be able to defeat the assembled might of the entire Comanche-Kiowa alliance, especially if they received Mexican help. Joined by Ranger companies and armed settlers hastily assembled as militia from central and east Texas, they confronted the Indians at Good's Crossing on Plum Creek, near the modern town of Lockhart (about 27 miles south of Austin). [3] The Comanches killed a large number of slaves and captured more than 1,500 horses.[4]. Peta Nocona's place and date of death is still in dispute. Mackenzie used the captives as a bargaining tool to force the off-reservation Indians back to the reservation and to force the Indians to free white captives. "The "Battle" at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources." Eventually, the numbers were so large that Hispanics made up nearly thirty percent of the Comanche nation. His ranch was raided upon by a band of Comanches, who killed his son and kidnapped his wife and daughter. [8] In May 1847 Pahayuca, Mupitsukup, Buffalo Hump and Santa Anna again met Neighbors and learned that that the U.S. Senate had suppressed the article of Council Springs treaty which forbade settlers from encroaching into the Comancheria. Shoshone and other Numic peoples. Often it was common practice to have the child baptized and then adopt them into their homes, where they were raised to be servants. The campaign of the Red River War was fought during a time when buffalo hunters were hunting the great American Bison nearly to extinction. In what may have been the largest organized raid by the Comanches to that point, they raided, burned, and plundered these towns. Although such events would have proven catastrophic in early years as the Comanche raided towards Mexico City, the presence of American militias obstructed such attacks, thereby encouraging the Mexicans to become dilatory in payments. On December 19, 1868, a large Comanche and Kiowa band faced a company of the 10th Cavalry on the way from Fort Arbuckle to Fort Cobb. Kiowa warriors led by Manyi-ten came to take part in the fight; only one soldier was killed. None of the other 11 bands of the Comanche were involved in the peace talks. After this, Piava, a minor chief, brought to San Antonio three white prisoners, but probably the Comanches killed the other captives. She maintained that the Indians had wanted to see how high a price they could get for her and that they then planned to bring in the remaining captives one at a time. The Apaches were driven out in a series of wars, and the Comanche came to control the area. Houston ordered the Rangers to protect the Indian lands from encroachment by settlers and illegal traders. Supported by popular opinion in the Republic, Lamar decided to expel the Cherokee Indians from East Texas. The Texans had concealed heavily armed soldiers just outside the Council House and at the onset of the fighting the windows and doors were opened and the soldiers outside shot into the room at the Comanche ambassadors and their people. This marked the first time the United States had successfully attacked the Comanches in the heart of the Comancheria and emphasized that if the Army wished to force the Comanches onto reservations, the way to do it was destroy their villages and leave them unable to survive off reservation. Brice, Donaly E. The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic. [59] Ranchers Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, together with their cowboys, attempted to drive their livestock around Comancheria in the trail now known as the GoodnightLoving Trail. In the late fall of 1864 in Young County, Texas, a war party of between 500 and 1,000 Comanche and Kiowa headed by Kotsoteka chief Kuhtsu-tiesuat ("Little Buffalo") raided the middle Brazos River country, destroying 11 farms along the Elm Creek, stealing virtually every cow, horse, and mule in the area, and besieging the citizen stronghold of Fort Murrah. The entry of Texas into the United States marked the beginning of the end for the Plains Indians. [5] The Comanches, who normally fared about as a fast and deadly light cavalry, were detained considerably by the captive, slower pack mules. Mukwoor (based on Comanche mukua "spirit") (Spirit Talker) (d. March 19, 1840) was a 19th-century Penateka Comanche Chief and medicine man in Central Texas.His nephews were the two cousins Buffalo Hump and Yellow Wolf, both very important Penateka war chiefs during the 1840s and 1850s.. Peace council. [1] Comanche allies, including the Wacos, Taweashes, Tawakonis, Kanoatinos, Keechis, belonging to the Wichita confederation, the Kiowa and Kiowa Apache, also agreed to join in the treaty. [50], With the aid of federal troops, whom he finally shamed and politically forced to assist him, he managed to hold back the white people from the reservations. University of North Texas, 2008. On January 18, 1865 a force of Confederate Texans attacked a peaceful tribe of Kickapoos at Battle of Dove Creek, Tom Green County, and were soundly defeated. [14] "The coat of mail worn by old Iron Jacket covered his dead body "like shingles on a roof". Re: rumors of a band of Comanches and Apaches of hostile nature gathering. Peta Nocona and Iron Jacket led Comanche troops against the combined 220 forces of the 2nd cavalry, Tonkawa, Nadaco and Shawnee. In witness whereof we have hitherunto set our hands, marks and seals. Despite the Council House massacre and the subsequent Great Raid of 1840, Sam Houston, once again the President of the Texas Republic following the Lamar Presidency, and Buffalo Hump with other chiefs succeeded, in August 1843, in agreeing to a temporary treaty accord and a ceasefire between the Comanches, their allies, and the Texans. Secretary of War Albert Sidney Johnston issued instructions which made clear that Lamar expected the Comanche to act in good faith in returning the hostages and to yield to his threats of force. The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States. That allowed several hundred American families to move into the region. Everyone panicked and drew their weapons. The Handbook of Texas Online. Diss. Mukwooru responded that the other prisoners were held by differing bands of Comanche. [6] Most other Plains Indians had already arrived by the mid-18th century. The influence of Teotihuacan in northern Mexico peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries.[5]. But at independence, the best estimates were that the republic had 30,000 Anglo-Americans and Hispanic residents. The treaty was made between the powerful chiefs Buffalo Hump, Santa Anna, Old Owl for the Penateka Comanche, and Meusebach for the Society. The Fort Parker massacre was a raid conducted by a coalition of tribes including the Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos and Wichitas. It started in January 1858 and ended in May of the same year. Roemer characterizes Buffalo Hump vividly as:[15]. The talks were held at the council house, a one-story stone building adjoining the jail on the corner of Main Plaza and Calabosa (Market) Street. The campaigns of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this region of the frontier. In the summer of 1854 Neighbors and Captain Randolph B. Marcy carried out a reconnaissance in search of a potential reserve for the Comanche and selected two areas, allocating to the Penatekas 18.576 acres on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, approximately five miles from Camp Cooper. [4] According to Arizona historian Robert M. Utley, the battle of Plum Creek was a disaster for the Commanche. One week later Yellow Wolf was killed by a party of Lipan hunters, after which Buffalo Hump temporized almost two years more. A buffalo hide was wound around his hips. Satanta was released in 1873 (and Ado'ete was released too) and was alleged to be soon back attacking buffalo hunters and was present at the raid on Adobe Walls. The well-equipped and well-supplied Army simply kept the Indians running, and in the end they ran out of food, ammunition, and the ability to fight any longer. Fehrenbach believes the union came from the necessity to protect their hunting grounds from settler incursions. He was saved because of the Comanche reverence for the mad, a reverence shared by most Native American cultures. Buffalo Hump, already made famous by the Council House fight of 1840, became a historically important figure when, flanked by Isaviah and Sanna Anna, he led a group of Comanches, mostly his own Penateka Comanche division plus allies from various other Comanche bands, in the Great Raid of 1840. Chief Buffalo or Kechewaishke (1759-1855), Ojibwa chief of the La Pointe Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; . [49], On October 1, 1858, while camped in the Wichita Mountains with the Kotsoteka band under Quohohateme, the Yambarika band under Hotoyokowat, and probably the Nokoni band under Quenaevah, the remains of the once mighty Penateka Band, under Buffalo Hump, were attacked by United States troops under the command of Maj. Earl Van Dorn. [41] On February 28, 1845, the U.S. Congress passed a bill that authorized the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. During the summer of 1874, the Army launched a campaign to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, the Southern band of the Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains. The Kiowa led the first attack, by Dohsan assisted by Satank (Sitting Bear), Guipago, Set-imkia (Stumbling Bear) and Satanta; Guipago led the warriors to the first counterattack to protect the fleeing women and children. [4] During the American Civil War, when the U.S. Army was unavailable to protect the frontier, the Comanche and Kiowa pushed white settlements back more than 100 miles along the Texas frontier. [5] Buffalo Hump, Penateka second war chief Yellow Wolf, Penateka third war chief Santa Anna and Isimanica gathered a huge Penateka raiding party, at least 400 warriors, with (maybe 500) wives and young boys along to provide comfort and do the work and, in the summer, raided the settlements between Bastrop and San Antonio. In 1821, while colonists were still welcome, Jose Francisco Ruiz negotiated a truce with the Penatucka Comanche, the band closest to the settlements in East and Central Texas. In August Yellow Wolf, Buffalo Hump, and Santa Anna were in Mexico once again, leading 800 warriors.[8]. Like most Comanche Chiefs, Old Owl came to white attention following the Council House Fight. [62] Sherman ordered the three Kiowa chiefs taken to Jacksboro, Texas, to stand trial for murder. It was not until the third and final battle of Little Robe creek where the Comanche warriors were able to take an offensive stance against the Texas Rangers. But Buffalo Hump was determined to do more than merely complain about what the Comanches viewed as a bitter betrayal. He had been given orders that, had Meusebach already departed, to overtake them and offer to assist in the negotiations. (That this included Potsnakwahip "Buffalo Hump", after the events at the Council House, showed extraordinary Comanche belief in Houston)[41] In early 1844, Buffalo Hump and other Comanche leaders, including Santa Anna and Old Owl, signed a treaty at Tehuacana Creek in which they agreed to surrender white captives in total and to cease raiding Texan settlements. The only other known survivors were a 10-year-old boy saved by Sul Ross and Cynthia Parker's infant daughter, "Prairie Flower".[4]. The Civil War brought incredible bloodshed and chaos to the plains. Gathering around 500 warriors and another 400 women and boys to provide comfort and do the work, Buffalo Hump took his war party and raided all the way from the Edwards Plateau to the gulf. When they refused, he used force to compel their removal.[27]. The Rangers cut up the mail and divided the pieces as trophies. But the defenders were awake, and their long-range buffalo guns rendered the attack useless. Goodnight also had to face raids along the way, once being wounded during an attack together with another fellow cowboy. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to negotiate the Quahada's surrender. This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 01:51. He was born about 1800, probably in Kansas, and killed June 8, 1871. Out of this meeting, the army developed a campaign against the Comanche in their strongholds in the Staked Plains. The killing of colonist militia at Fort Parker also resulted in the Comanche taking two women and three children as captives. 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