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. "Sorrow Whispers in the Winds: The Republic of Texas's Comanche Policy." About ten days after the Meusebach group was gone, the Governor of Texas, James Pinckney Henderson, sent a Robert Neighbors to warn Meusebach of the possible consequences of entering Indian territory. Thus, the United States played no role in this treaty, except to later recognize it. Realizing that the plains Indians would have no experience on water, the townspeople fled prudently from the Comanche raiders to the safety of the water. His son, Peta Nocona, became a chief himself. The Battle of Little Robe Creek (Also known as the Battle of Antelope Hills) was a battle fought between the Comanches' allies of the Kiowa and the Apache against the Texas Rangers with their allies the Tonkawa, Caddo, Anadarko, Waco, Shawnee, Delaware, and Tahaucano. The Plains Apache and Kiowa migrated from the west into present-day Texas prior to European contact. Dickson Schilz, Jodye Lynn and Schilz Thomas F. Buffalo Hump and the Penateka Comanches, Texas Western Press, El Paso, 1989 Rollings, Willard. [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. An additional bill was passed on December 29, 1838, which added an additional 8 companies of mounted volunteers to serve 6 month deployments. The First Battle of Adobe Walls was a battle fought against the United States Army and the Comanche Allies of Kiowa, and the Plains Apaches. 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. He, along with Santa Anna, was part of the Great Raid of 1840 which Buffalo Hump organized to take revenge for what the Comanche viewed as the "utter betrayal of their people at the Council House." But Old Owl was the first among the Comanche Chiefs to recognize that defeating the whites was unlikely. On July 20, 1874, General Sherman telegraphed General Philip Sheridan to begin an offensive against the Kiowa and Comanches on the plains of West Texas and Oklahoma, and either kill them or drive them to reservations. 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 Texas Officials were determined to force the Comanche to release all white captives among them. [28] The republic had a militia but no standing army, and its tiny navy had been greatly decreased during Houston's presidency. On November 5, 1874, Mackenzie's forces won a minor engagement, his last, with the Comanches. Brown to Peter P. Pitchlynn. [45] He negotiated a non-government peace treaty with John O. Meusebach in 1847. Mackenzie, in the most daring and decisive battle of the campaign, destroyed five Indian villages on September 28, 1874, in Palo Duro Canyon. When they were ready, in late July 1840, Buffalo Hump, along with Yellow Wolf, Santa Anna and likely Isimanica, led the Penateka warriors in the Great Raid, and old Mupitsukup too joined the biggest war party. Three units arrived, led by Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, Captain J.J. Cureton, and First Sergeant John W. Spangler. Lamar's success in ethnically cleansing the Cherokee, a neutral tribe, from Texas emboldened him to do the same with the Plains tribes. The Indian problems of the first Houston administration were symbolized by the Crdova Rebellion. [2] Black scout Britt Johnson, whose wife was among the stolen women, went out to look for the prisoners and managed to rescue all of them, with the aid of the friendly Penateka chief Asa-havey (who, after this, became a specialist in this job). Texas State Historical Association. Brown to Peter P. Pitchlynn. It was the first treaty made by the Republic of Texas,[19] signed by allied tribes including Shawnee, Delaware, Kickapoo, Quapaw, Biloxi, Ioni, Alabama, Coushatta, Caddo, Tahocullake, and Mataquo. In the 1740s, Tonkawa, Yojuanes, and others settled along the San Gabriel River. Without the resources for a standing army, Texas created small Ranger companies mounted on fast horses to pursue and fight Comanches on their own terms. [14] The reasoning behind the order was that many native tribes, such as the Cherokee, were engaged in farming and living as peaceful settlers. In early 1847 some Penateka chiefs (Mupitsukup, Buffalo Hump, Santa Anna, but, apparently, not Yellow Wolf) met the Indian agent Robert S. Neighbors, Johann O. von Meusebach and the German immigrants united in the Adelsverein in the San Saba River council, and authorized them to settle Fredicksburg, in the grant the Germans had bought between the Llano and the Guadalupe rivers. Despite that disadvantage, it was disease and pure numbers which probably ended the Plains tribes. Comanches, The Destruction of a People. 15,700km) between the Llano River and Colorado River, in the heart of the Comancheria. With his long, straight black hair hanging down, he sat there with the earnest (to the European almost apathetic) expression of countenance of the North American savage. At that point, Buffalo Hump, who trusted Houston, began to talk. None of the other 11 bands of the Comanche were involved in the peace talks. But greed saved the Comanches in turn; when the militia discovered the stolen bullion, they abandoned the fight, divided their loot, and went home. After her daughter died from influenza, she starved herself to death when her guardians would not allow her to return to the Comanche to attempt to find her lost sons. In August Yellow Wolf, Buffalo Hump, and Santa Anna were in Mexico once again, leading 800 warriors.[8]. "The Rangers noted most of their dead foes were missing various body parts, and the Tonkawa had bloody containers, portending a dreadful victory feast that evening.". On the way back from the sea, the Comanches easily defeated three different Militia detachments under John Tomlinson, Adam Zumvalt and Ben McCulloch (all together, 125 men) near the Garcitas Creek; then, they overwhelmed another Militia company (90 men) led by Lafayette Ward, James Bird and Matthew Caldwell along the trail to the San Marcos River; finally, they were attacked by Texas Rangers (all the companies of central and western Texas, under Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch), and militia (units from Bastrop and Gonzales, respectively under Ed Burleson and Mathew Caldwell), rallied under gen. Felix Huston, at the Battle of Plum Creek near Lockhart. From H.M.C. He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when he led the Comanches on the Great Raid of 1840. Dallas Herald 2 Jan. 1861: The Comanches: Lords of the Southern Plains. [29] The most notable Penateka war chief Potsnakwahip ("Buffalo Hump") disagreed with this decision and did not trust Lamar or his representatives. [6], This land was earmarked for the settlement of immigrants who arrived in Texas under the sponsorship of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants. 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). Mirabeau Lamar had a harsher policy towards Native Americans in Texas and signed two bills which escalated tensions in the region. Carson had decided to march first to Adobe Walls, with which he was familiar from his employment there over 20 years earlier. The Comanche were known as fierce warriors, with a reputation for looting, burning, murdering, and kidnapping as far south as Mexico City. The value of the Comanche traditional homeland was recognized by European-American colonists seeking to settle the American frontier and quickly brought the two sides into conflict. [52], Approximately two hours after daybreak on November 26, Carson's cavalry attacked a Kiowa village of 150 lodges. Once they acquired horses, which gave them greater mobility and hunting access, the Comanche became a separate tribe from the Shoshone. The Texans had expected the Comanches to bring several white captives as part of the agreement. More importantly, although the Texas forces succeeded in rescuing large numbers of hostages, thousands remained in captivity. The Kiowa-Apache chief Iron Shirt was killed when he refused to leave his tepee. [45], During this period, when settlers began to actually attack the Indians on the reservations established in Texas, federal Indian agent Robert Neighbors became hated among white Texans. 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. Spreading word to the other bands of Comanches that he was raiding the white settlements in revenge, Buffalo Hump led the Great Raid of 1840. [14] At the end of 1839 however, some of the Comanche chiefs of the Penateka band had come to believe that they could not drive the colonists completely from their homes as they had the Apache. Following the Council House Fight of 1840 a group of Comanches led by the Penateka Comanche War Chief Buffalo Hump, warriors from his own band plus allies from various other Comanche bands, raided from West Texas all the way to the coast and the sea. One resident wrote, "We of Victoria were startled by the apparitions presented by the sudden appearance of six hundred mounted Comanches in the immediate outskirts of the village. [8] Buffalo Hump continued to raid white settlements until 1844, when he negotiated peace, and after Texas acquired statehood he agreed to settle his band into the Treaty of Council Springs, while European settlers took over the former Commanche land. Goodnight also had to face raids along the way, once being wounded during an attack together with another fellow cowboy. In addition, by the 1830s the Comanche had established a large network of Indian allies and a vast trading network. According to books by captives of the period (such as "The Boy Captives" and "Nine Years with the Indians"), the Rangers were the only force feared by the Indians. Most Texans were busy trying to return to what was left of their former homes and dealing with their own losses as well as skirmishes with the retreating Mexican Army. In what may have been the largest organized raid by the Comanches to that point on Texas settlements, or an attack by Indians on any white city in the continental United States,[4] they raided and burned these towns, plundering at will. Santa Anna was the first of his tribe to travel to Washington D.C. and agreed to sign a treaty in May 1846, despite the continued hostilities. In 1996 he appeared as a Comanche protagonist, Buffalo Hump, in the Larry McMurtry miniseries Dead Man's Walk. A Comanche warrior. [9][10], Spanish settlers sometimes captured American Indian children. [5] The Comanches, who normally fared about as a fast and deadly light cavalry, were detained considerably by the captive, slower pack mules. Iron Jacket took part in the Antelope Hills Expedition of 1858, where he was ultimately killed at the Battle of Little Robe Creek. Yancey, William C. In justice to our Indian allies: The government of Texas and her Indian allies, 18361867. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [4] According to Arizona historian Robert M. Utley, the battle of Plum Creek was a disaster for the Commanche. The first bill was signed on December 21, 1838 which formed an 840-man regiment to protect the Northern and Western Frontiers of Texas. Jodye Lynn Dickson Schilz, "SANTA ANNA," Handbook of Texas Online (. At this point, Buffalo Hump left the party, and Neighbors then engaged Guadalupe, the Chief of a Comanche band, to guide the expedition on to El Paso. On May 18, 1871, travelling down the Jacksboro-Belknap road heading towards Salt Creek Crossing, the supplies wagon train encountered General William Tecumseh Sherman, but less than an hour later the teamsters spotted a large group of riders ahead. Although only a dozen bodies were recovered, the Texans reported killing 80 Comanches, and the war party losses were probably higher than normal. Mirabeau Lamar was the second President of the Republic of Texas from 1838 to 1841, preceded by Sam Houston. The Comanche could then easily kill their enemies before they had a chance to reload. Re: rumors of a band of Comanches and Apaches of hostile nature gathering. They did not distinguish between Mexicans and Americans in their raids. He had no resources to fight a full-scale war against the Plains Indians. 2 Apr. Iron Jacket was a Comanche chief and medicine man. [34], Armed citizens joined the battle, but claiming they could not differentiate between warriors and women and children since all of the Comanche were fighting, they shot at all the Comanche. Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast. Hmlinen, Pekka (2008), The Comanche Empire, Yale University Press, p. 216, Brice, Donaly E. The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack on the Texas Republic McGowan Book Co. 1987, Fehrenbach, T.R. Loving made his last stand in the Pecos River to allow his cowboy to get help. 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. The Texas Congress passed laws opening up all Indian lands to white settlement and overrode Houston's veto. After a while, the back stays in a rounded or hunched shape. His body naked, a buffalo robe around his loins, brass rings on his arms, a string of beads around his neck, and with his long, coarse black hair hanging down, he sat there with the serious facial expression of the North American Indian which seems to be apathetic to the European. In 1862, warriors from these tribes united to attack the Tonkawas. Kiowa warriors led by Manyi-ten came to take part in the fight; only one soldier was killed. The frontier was eventually pushed back over 100 miles (160km), and the Texas plains were riddled with abandoned and burned out farms and settlements. This was later portrayed as a great Texan victory, but that is highly questionable: volunteers from Gonzales and from Bastrop had gathered to attempt to stop the war party and all the Ranger companies of east and central Texas, equipped with the new Colt Paterson revolvers, moved to intercept the Indians. [35], The interpreter warned the Texian officials that if he delivered that message, the Comanches would attempt to escape by fighting. The campgrounds in question were reported to be somewhere on the south side of the Canadian River. As revenge for the killing of 33 Comanche chiefs at the Council House Fight, all but three of the remaining captives held by the Indians were executed slowly by torture; the three who were spared had been previously adopted into the tribe. The cause for the expedition was due to Comanche raids into Texan territories. Houston's first presidency was focused on maintaining the Republic of Texas as an independent country. A band of 25 warriors attacked Johnson again with two of his cowboys during a routine cattle drive. [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. He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when he led the Comanches on the Great Raid of 1840 . 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. In March 1843, Houston reached agreement with the Delaware, Wichitas, and other tribes. In spite of continuous threats of various people to take his life, Neighbors never faltered in his determination to do his duty, and carry out the law to protect the Indians. The battle was an ambush on the village with the killing of 23 men, women, and children and the capture of 120 or 130 women and children and more than 1.000 horses. [13] When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, its government continued to recruit Americans, as it wanted to develop its depopulated northern provinces. In October, the Comanches, hopeful of permanently establishing official Comancheria borders, agreed to meet with Houston and try to negotiate a treaty similar to the one just concluded at Fort Bird: the peace chiefs Pahayuca and Mupitsukup, and others (the inclusion of Buffalo Hump, after the events at the Council House, showed the extraordinary Comanche belief in Houston),[5] representing, for the first time, every major division of the Comanche in Texas (Penateka, but also Nokoni, Kotsoteka and Kwahadi) and their Kiowa and Kataka (Kiowa Apaches) allies were asked to free their white prisoners. The federal government is charged by the U.S. Constitution to be in charge of Indian affairs and took over that role in Texas after it became a state in 1846. [1] The treaty was officially recognized by the United States government. Battle of the North Fork of the Red River. [19] The treaty stated that these lands could not be sold or leased to anyone who was not a member of the tribe, including Texas citizens. [12] Beginning in the 1740s, the Comanche began crossing the Arkansas River and established themselves on margins of the Llano Estacado. She was later discovered to be Cynthia Ann Parker. That allowed several hundred American families to move into the region. University of Oklahoma Press. [62] Both Satank and Satanta are buried at the Chief's Knoll at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The Comanche detested the Tonkawa, in particular, for allegedly being cannibals. When depredations occurred to either side, the troops were ordered to find and punish the actual perpetrators, rather than retaliating against innocent Indians simply because they were Indians. Postural kyphosis is common in teenage girls, though boys can get it too. Consequently, the new regime quickly recruited Americans, the first of which was Stephen F. Austin, who was given a Spanish land grant in Texas. [14] In exchange for this, the Texans would cease military action against the tribe, establish more trading posts, and recognize the boundary between Texas and Comanchera. As a result the Texan-Comanche relationship turned violent. University of Oklahoma Press. Of these, only Castell survived. He had been given orders that, had Meusebach already departed, to overtake them and offer to assist in the negotiations. He had been kidnapped by Comanches as a child and understood the language and culture. In consideration of which agreement the Commissary General Mr. Meusebach will give them presents to the amount of One Thousand Dollars, which with the necessary provisions to be given to the Comanches during their stay at Fredericksburgh will amount to about Two Thousand Dollars worth or more. [21], Houston's Indian policy was to disband the vast majority of the regular Army troops but muster four new companies of Rangers to patrol the frontier. [58] Although Loving managed to escape the onslaught, he was mortally wounded and died soon after. Mackenzie used the captives as a bargaining tool to force the off-reservation Indians back to the reservation, and to force them to free white captives. Although Johnson managed to negotiate with them for his family, the Comanches would not leave him alone. For example, in 1826 Comanches raided and burned Green DeWitt's new town of Gonzales to the ground. 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 soldiers who followed again opened fire, killing and wounding both Comanche and Texians. The Republic of Texas, which was largely settled by Anglo-Americans, was a threat to the indigenous people of the region. Guipago, Satanta, Manyi-ten, Pa-tadal ("Poor Buffalo") and Ado'ete came in with their Kiowa braves, and the remnant companies of 10th Cavalry came too, to face 200 or 300 Nokoni Comanche and Kiowa. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. By the end of the 1860s, the Comanches had driven much of the livestock businesses out of West Texas. Most or all Comanche chiefs joined the raid. The Akokisa, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Tamique lived along the Gulf coast. [14], The Tonkawa warriors with the Rangers celebrated the victory by decorating their horses with the bloody hands and feet of their Comanche victims as trophies. Most of the remaining Mexican settlements were destroyed; only those in the upper Rio Grande were secured. [26] Lamar demanded that the Cherokee, who had been promised title to their land if they remained neutral during the Texas War of Independence, voluntarily relinquish their lands and all their property and move to the Indian Territory of the United States. 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. Peta Nocona's place and date of death is still in dispute. Americans did not like this policy and also objected to the central government's actions in tightening political and economic control over the territory. This is where Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma and most of Northern and Southern Texas are today. For this reason the United States gained the aid of the Comanches' enemy tribes Tonkawa, Nadaco and Shawnee. The Mexican government negotiated additional treaties, signed in 1826 and 1834, but in each case failed to meet the terms of the agreements. They did what no other indigenous peoples had managed, defending their homeland even expanding their homelands, in the face of the best military forces the Spanish could bring against them. By the end of his second term as president, Houston had spent less than $250,000, brought peace to the frontier and a treaty between the Comanches and their allies, and the Republic awaited only the United States legislature's ratification for statehood.[41]. He still made peace with the Comanche in 1838. 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. European and especially mixed-race Mexican colonists reached Texas prior to the end of Spanish rule. Kiyou was appointed as Comanche head chief and was ordered to select the "worst" Comanche chiefs and warriors to be indicted as responsible for the uprising at Palo Duro. Nor were the Indians apologetic; at his trail Satanta warned what might happen if he was hanged: " I am a great chief among my people. [2], Nonetheless, an aged and weary Buffalo Hump led and settled his remaining followers on the Kiowa-Comanche reservation near Fort Cobb in Indian Territory in Oklahoma. When Sul Ross rescued Cynthia Ann Parker at Pease River, he observed that this event would be felt in every family in Texas, as every one had lost someone in the Indian Wars. Following that truce, he was able to complete a treaty of peace and friendship, which was signed in Mexico City in December 1821. 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. On June 27, 1874, the allied Indian force attacked the 28 hunters and one woman encamped at Adobe Walls. A captured comanchero, Edwardo Ortiz, had told the army that the Comanches were on their winter hunting grounds along the Red River on the Staked Plains. General Augur then summoned Mackenzie to San Antonio where they held a strategy meeting. [41] Burning and looting Victoria and Linnville, then the second biggest port in Texas, the Comanches gathered thousands of horses and mules and a fortune in goods from the Linnville warehouses[42] The population of Linnville prudently fled to the waters of the gulf, where they watched helplessly while the Comanche looted the town and burned it. He was willing to meet with the Comanche on their terms and believed, as a matter of policy, that it was worth it to buy a few thousand dollars worth of presents. Eventually, the three tribes agreed to share the same hunting grounds and had a mutual self-defense and war pact.[13]. However, Houston was forbidden by Texas law to yield any land claimed by the Republic. The Comanches at this point were able to act in defense but there was still a significant lose of life for the Comanches. [14][25] Lamar became convinced that the Cherokee could not be allowed to stay in Texas after their part in the 1838-39 Crdova Rebellion (and after some disaffected Cherokee carried out the 1838 Killough massacre). Running low on supplies, Carson ordered his forces to withdraw in the afternoon. Little is known of Buffalo Hump's early life: education in his youth and training as a warrior, together with his cousin Yellow Wolf (Isaviah, spelled also Sa-viah and sometimes misspelled as Sabaheit, alias Small Wolf), went on under their uncle Mukwooru's ("Spirit Talker") influence and their cursus honorum (i.e., rising through the ranks) was in its full development during the Mexican domination of Texas. Died. [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. 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. They tied feather beds and bolts of cloth to their horses, and dragged them. [4] The Comanche tribe was supposed to have brought white hostages as their part of the negotiations but only brought one young woman (the 16-year-old Matilda Lockhart). [61]:80 The previous night, Mamanti ("He Walking-above"), the powerful shaman rival of Tene-angopte's friend Napawat ("No Mocassins"), had prophesied that this small party would be followed by a larger one with more plunder for the taking. [57] One dire case happened to a black cowboy named Britton Johnson in 1864. [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. [17] Fredericksburg borders on the grant, but does not fall within the grant itself. The Texan officials began the treaty talks with demands that were unacceptable or impossible to fulfill for the Comanches, such as the Comanche return all white captives, including the famous captive Cynthia Parker. All were relative newcomers to Texas; Europeans began permanently settling in Texas around the Rio Grande and upwards toward modern-day San Antonio and El Paso starting in the late 17th century; they reached Nacogdoches area around 1721. An able warrior, he became part of the Koitsenko (or Kaitsenko, Ko-eet-senko ), the society of the bravest Kiowa warriors. 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. [3], Santa Anna was a Comanche war chief who advocated for armed resistance against the Texas settlers, and became influential after the Council House Fight of 1840 in San Antonio. Indians of North America: The Comanche, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1989.; Richardson, Rupert N. The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier, Arthur . This battle has become highly debated due to unreliable sources and exaggerated facts surrounding the event, but the event started in November 1860, most likely when a band of Comanche warriors, "struck farms, ranches, and outlying settlements in Parker, Young, Jack, and Palo Pinto counties west of Fort Worth. As carried out, the policy was based on establishing a permanent Indian frontier, i.e., a line beyond which the various "removed" tribes would be able to carry on their lives free from white settlement or attacks. While they are on this mission, Comanche chief Buffalo Hump takes his warriors on the warpath. Thirty-three Penateka chiefs and warriors accompanied by 32 other Comanches arrived in San Antonio on March 19, 1840, to meet with Texas officials. The conflicts continued after Texas secured its independence from Mexico in 1836 and did not end until 30 years after Texas became a state of the United States, when in 1875 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. [26] In May 1839, Lamar's administration learned of a letter in the possession of Manuel Flores, an agent of the Mexican Government, exposing plans by officials to enlist the Indians against the Texas settlers. 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