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. Linnville, of which nothing remains, was located 3.5 miles northeast of present-day Port Lavaca. They were saved by remaining aboard small boats and a schooner captained by William G. Marshall, which was at anchor in the bay. [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. 1952. He then finished his speech with the comment, "how do you like that answer? The Comanches and their great Chiefs grant to Mr. Meusebach, his successors and constituents the privilege of surveying the country as far as the Concho and even higher up, if he thinks proper to the Colorado and agree not to disturb or molest any men, who may have already gone up or yet to be sent up for that purpose. They herded large numbers of cattle into pens and slaughtered them. Lamar needed an army to carry out his Indian policies, and he set out to build one, at great cost. Overhead, an eagle "glided lazily and then whipped his wings in the direction of Fort Sill", as Jacob Sturm reported later. Lorenzo de Rozas served as a guide and interpreter. John Moore and the La Grange volunteers hunted down a Commanche war party that had escaped the battle and all but exterminated them. Likewise, the Verein accepted the sale on face value and did not question it. This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 01:52. Although known as a civil, or peace, chief, he was known to lead war parties during the 1820s. They met at Plum Creek, near the town of Lockhart, on August 12, 1840; 80 Comanches were reported killed in the ensuing gun battle - unusually heavy casualties for the Comanches and their allies - but they got away with the bulk of their plunder and stolen horses,. The Cherokee reluctantly agreed to sign a treaty of removal that guaranteed to them the profit from their crops and the cost of the removal. 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 Comanches' constant movement caused many of their opponents' older single-shot weapons to miss their targets in the chaos of battle. After the Red River battle. Dallas Herald 2 Jan. 1861: The Comanches: Lords of the Southern Plains. Linn noted that in addition to the cloth and other trade goods usually present in his warehouse at that time were several cases of hats and umbrellas belonging to James Robinson, a San Antonio merchant. [4] Arguments and fighting then broke out among the Texans and Comanches. In 1852, in return for this assumption of debt, a large portion of Texas-claimed territory, now parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming, was ceded to the Federal government. There once were as many as 20,000 Comanches. Although several native tribes occupied territory in the area, the preeminent nation was the Comanche, known as the "Lords of the Plains". [2], The more than half-century struggle between the Plains tribes and the Texans became particularly intense after the Spanish, and then Mexicans, left power in Texas. The Rangers had been trailing the war party for some time, unable to engage them because of their sheer numbers. [8] The Tonkawa continued their southern migration into Texas and northern Mexico where they then allied with the Lipan Apache. Hidden in a thicket of scrub in the Salt Creek Prairie, the Kiowa had observed, without attacking, the slow approach of Sherman's inspection retinue. 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 Comanche chiefs at the meeting had brought along one white captive (Matilda Lockhart), and several Mexican children who had been captured. [13] The Comanches were decentralized; historically, they did not form a single cohesive tribal unit but were divided into almost a dozen autonomous groups. "[6] After loading loot onto pack mules, the raiders, finally began their retreat on the afternoon on August 8, 1840. [19] He negotiated a treaty with the Cherokee and other tribes on February 23, 1836, in Chief Bowles' village. Their total plunder included over 3,000 horses and mules as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars of other items ranging from silver to cloth and mirrors. This proved to be fatal as Loving and his ranch hand were soon attacked by 200 armed Comanche warriors patrolling the border. 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. Overview. The United States had the resources and manpower to realistically apply a policy of "removal", and they did so. His son, Peta Nocona, became a chief himself. The first was the attack on the sleeping village. On August 22, 1874, near Anadarko, with the Kiowa laughing at the Comanche, a cavalry detachment was sent to Pearua-akup-akup's village all of their weapons, and when the Nokoni warriors reacted, the soldiers fired on them. Ford considered the deaths of settlers, including women and children, during Indian raids, to open the door to make all Indians, regardless of age or sex, combatants. Lamar's cabinet boasted that it would remove Houston's "pet" Indians. This campaign was meant to enforce their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. [55] However, exporting the cattle was a dangerous task for the new ranches. [4] Quanah went tirelessly to work to help his people adapt to the Anglo world which had crushed them. 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. He was buried in the civilian cemetery at Fort Belknap. [4] 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. Pressler, Charles W.. Victoria County, Map, November 21, 1858; digital image, (. The Kiowa-Apache chief Iron Shirt was killed when he refused to leave his tepee. The Civil War brought incredible bloodshed and chaos to the plains. 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. These attacks affected the booming Texas economy. More importantly, although the Texas forces succeeded in rescuing large numbers of hostages, thousands remained in captivity. Tonkawa and Delaware Indians, enemies of the Comanche, allied with the new immigrants, trying to gain allies themselves against these traditional enemies. The decision of chiefs from one band of the Comanche to negotiate, as well as the offer of returning of the hostages, appears to have convinced Lamar that the Comanche tribe was ready to surrender the hostages. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs who had come to negotiate a peace treaty, killing them together with two dozen of their family and followers. Today less than 15 families of Tonkawa remain on their reservation in Oklahoma. In August Yellow Wolf, Buffalo Hump, and Santa Anna were in Mexico once again, leading 800 warriors.[8]. Relationships between them were mutual; cowboys are permitted to go across as long as they paid a toll. Houston then expanded it to all tribes except the Comanche, who still wanted permanent war. Buffalo Hump, Comanche leader; Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890-1932), journalist, soldier and Native American impostor Quanah believed Colonel Mackenzie when he promised that if the Quahada did not surrender, every man, woman, and child would be hunted down and killed. The Rangers cut up the mail and divided the pieces as trophies. This battle signaled the beginning of the end of the Comanche as a viable people, as they were successfully attacked in force in the heart of their domain. By the end of the 1860s, the Comanches had driven much of the livestock businesses out of West Texas. Re: rumors of a band of Comanches and Apaches of hostile nature gathering. The Cordova Rebellion was an example of Houston's ability to quash it without much bloodshed or wide unrest[21] When Houston left office, the Texans were at peace with the Indians, but many captives were still held by the tribe's bands. Supported by popular opinion in the Republic, Lamar decided to expel the Cherokee Indians from East Texas. [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. In December 1838, Mirabeau Lamar, a partisan of the clash with the Indians and of their expulsion from Texas, succeeded Houston, after which the peace agreement failed and fighting restarted. Realizing their way of life was disappearing, the remaining free Comanche struck back with incredible violence. 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. Thus, the United States played no role in this treaty, except to later recognize it. Appointed by Mackenzie as sole chief of the Comanches, he worked hard to bring education and the ability to survive in the white man's world to his people. The bands had as many as 45 distinct divisions. During the period of 1821 to 1835, colonists had difficulty with Comanche raids, despite the formation of full-time militia ranger companies in 1823. [19] After the treaty stalled in the Senate for a year, lawmakers decided that it would be detrimental to the citizens of Texas, reportedly because settler David G. Burnet had already been granted a tract of land within what were defined as Cherokee treaty lands. [35], The interpreter warned the Texian officials that if he delivered that message, the Comanches would attempt to escape by fighting. Based on the real-life Buffalo Hump. However, the majority of past negotiations concerning the return of hostages were never honored by the Comanche who obtained concessions but did not return the hostages or dragged out indefinitely the return of them. "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.". The entry of Texas into the United States marked the beginning of the end for the Plains Indians. 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. In October 1843, the Comanches agreed to meet with Houston to try to negotiate a treaty similar to the one at Fort Bird. Lamar's success in ethnically cleansing the Cherokee, a neutral tribe, from Texas emboldened him to do the same with the Plains tribes. As soon as Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie learned of the incident, he informed Sherman. The army declared Carson's mission a victory, despite his having been driven from the field.[52]. This article is about the Comanche leader. In August 1859, he succeeded in moving the Indians without loss of life to a new reservation in Indian Territory. 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. 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. First, the Kiowa and the Comanche agreed to share hunting grounds and unite in war. [56] However, in times of conflicts or when food are scarce, Indians would attack cowboys and their cattle in their land. Peta Nocona's place and date of death is still in dispute. Marching forward to Adobe Walls, Carson dug in there about 10am, using one corner of the ruins for a hospital. Several hundred militia under Mathew Caldwell and Ed Burleson, plus all Ranger companies and their Tonkawa allies, engaged the war party in a huge running gun battle. Blue Duck is the half Mexican son of the Comanche war chief, Buffalo Hump, whose other son Call shoots in the Brazos River in "Dead Man's Walk". [1] Volunteers from Gonzales under Mathew Caldwell and from Bastrop under Ed Burleson gathered to intercept the Comanches. Chief Buffalo may refer to any number of people: Ojibwe. Their expedition's purpose was to move the 2nd Cavalry from Oklahoma to Texas in order to better handle the raiding Comanches. [14] "The coat of mail worn by old Iron Jacket covered his dead body "like shingles on a roof". 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas. By 1823 war raged the entire length of the Rio Grande. The Cherokee War and subsequent removal of the Cherokee from Texas began shortly after Lamar took office. [14] Unknown to the Governor, however, contacts with the Indians had already been made; Neighbors was able to convince Buffalo Hump to join, and the negotiations were fruitful. The Indians tried to block his retreat by firing the grass and brush down near the river. [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. "[32] The Texian militia entered the courtroom and positioned themselves at intervals on the walls. His body lay unburied in the road, with his people afraid to claim it, though Mackenzie assured the family they could safely claim Satank's remains. The original Meusebach-Comanche treaty document was returned to Texas from Germany in 1970 by Mrs. Irene Marschall King, the granddaughter of John Meusebach. The Antelope Hills expedition was a campaign led by the federal 2nd Cavalry against the Comanche and Kiowa tribes in Comancheria. [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. [12] But the three days of looting at Linnville gave the militia and Ranger companies a chance to gather. [3] During the cholera epidemic of 1848-9, most of its remaining members died, and the band split up. [5][3][8], In May 1846, following the annexation of Texas to the United States, Buffalo Hump led the Comanche delegation to treaty talks at Council Springs and signed a peace treaty with the United States,[9]. The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, "Chief returns Local News San Marcos Record, San Marcos, TX", Howard O. Pollan, "The Cherokees of Texas: Cherokee, Henderson & Smith Counties, TX", http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/smith/military/indian/cherokee.txt, Fort Tours | Cherokee War and Battle of Neches, Hugh McLeod's Report on the Council House Fight, March 1840 - Page 3 - Texas State Library, Treaty Negotiations Texas State Library, The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Texas From Independence to Annexation, Handbook of Texas Online NEIGHBORS, ROBERT SIMPSON, "Cattle Drives Started in Earnest After the Civil War", San Antonio de Bexar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TexasIndian_wars&oldid=1136167000. [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. In 1996 he appeared as a Comanche protagonist, Buffalo Hump, in the Larry McMurtry miniseries Dead Man's Walk. Included in the dead was the elderly Placido. After the Great Raid and hundreds of lesser raids, with the Republic bankrupt and all of the captives either recovered or murdered by the Indians, Texans turned away from continuation of war and toward more diplomatic initiatives by electing Houston to his second presidency. The Apaches were driven out in a series of wars, and the Comanche came to control the area. The campaigns of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this region of the frontier. As war chief of the Penateka Comanche, Buffalo Hump, and Yellow Wolf too, dealt peacefully with American officials throughout the late 1840s and 1850s. Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXIII.1 (2009): 33-52. Since federal Indian agents in Texas knew that Indian land rights were the key to peace on the frontier, no peace could be possible with the uncooperative attitude of Texas officials on the question of Indian homelands. On December 19, 1860, Sul Ross led the attack on the Comanche village and according to Ross's report, "killed twelve of the Comanches and captured three: a woman who turned out to be Cynthia Ann Parker, her daughter Topsannah (Prairie Flower), and a young boy whom Ross brought to Waco and named Pease RossThe whole incident lasted twenty minutes-thirty at the most."[11]. In March 1843, Houston reached agreement with the Delaware, Wichitas, and other tribes. [34] When the Comanches would not, or could not, promise to return all captives immediately, the Texas officials said that chiefs would be held hostage until the white captives were released. [14] Thus, while technology and warfare with Anglo-Texans may have completed the process, the foremost cause of the decline of the Plains Indians came from diseases brought by conflict. They attack Austin. 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 . However, Houston was forbidden by Texas law to yield any land claimed by the Republic. [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). [13] In 1824, the Tonkawa entered into a treaty with Austin, pledging their support against the Comanche. [17] Houston had spent much of his childhood with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee, among them Cherokee Chief Bowles. An additional bill was passed on December 29, 1838, which added an additional 8 companies of mounted volunteers to serve 6 month deployments. 133 out of the remaining 309 Tonkawas were killed in the massacre. Their goal was to get revenge on the Texans who had killed thirty members of a delegation of Comanche Chiefs when they had been under a flag of truce for negotiations.[1]. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Buffalo Hump . Richardson, Rupert N., Adrian Anderson, Cary D. Wintz & Ernest Wallace, "Texas: the Lone Star State", 9th edition, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 0131835505. The Comanche were noted as fierce combatants who practiced an emphatic resistance to European-American influence and encroachment upon their lands. [58] However over the years, Comanches would surrender or sell their lands to Texas cattlemen.[60]. Only five Adelsverein settlements were attempted in the Fisher-Miller land grant area: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg. He used them to neutralize the anti-Texans among the group, identifying the Mexican network and having its members killed. And finally both parties agree mutually to use every exertion to keep up and even enforce peace and friendship between both the German and the Comanche people and all other colonists and to walk in the white path always and forever. In 1829 Buffalo Hump and, presumably, Yellow Wolf led their warriors northward to recover a large herd of horses stolen by a Cheyenne party, and the young Penateka braves proved themselves against these northern enemies. [6] Most other Plains Indians had already arrived by the mid-18th century. Texas developed in the region between two major cultural centers of pre-Columbian North America. Completed in March 1834, it had been regarded by the colonists as a stronghold, sufficient to protect them from any Native Americans not observing the peace treaties Elder John Parker had negotiated with local Indians. He attempted to keep his people's land together, and when that became politically impossible, he tried to get the best bargain for his people he could.[4]. It will make a big fire a terrible fire!" University of North Texas, 1994. The Akokisa, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Tamique lived along the Gulf coast. None of the other 11 bands of the Comanche were involved in the peace talks. The campaign of the Red River War was fought during a time when buffalo hunters were hunting the great American Bison nearly to 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). 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. Their population increased dramatically because of the abundance of buffalo, the use of the horse for hunting and fighting, the adoption of other migrating Shoshone, and women and children taken captive during raids and warfare. 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). The Comanches who came to the Council House at San Antonio in the Republic of Texas in March 1840, under Lamars Presidency, had the intention to negotiate a peace treaty. Given these provisions, the Society realized it must either enter the Indian territory or forfeit the land grant. Eventually these tensions resulted in the Texas Revolution.[13]. In 1829, when Mexico abolished slavery throughout Mexico, the immigrants from the U.S. were exempted in some colonies or actively evaded governmental efforts to enforce this abolition in the territory. 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. The Kiowa Apache, as allies of the Kiowa, ultimately joined this alliance. 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. The Comanche could then easily kill their enemies before they had a chance to reload. They were well supplied with high-quality firearms and had a large surplus of horses. Houston supported the "Solemn Declaration", which gave the Cherokee rights to the land in Texas on which they lived. When killed, Chief Bowles was carrying the sword given to him by Houston. The first bill was signed on December 21, 1838 which formed an 840-man regiment to protect the Northern and Western Frontiers of Texas. Web. Meusebach was called "El Sol Colorado" by the Penateka Comanches. 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. After the Texas Senate removed the boundary provision from the final version of the treaty, Buffalo Hump repudiated it and hostilities resumed. The Battle of Pease River took place on December 18, 1860, in Foard County, Texas. In February, 1877, they, and their Apache allies, began attacking buffalo . The Battle Began as a raid where the Comanche party stole livestock and firearms which gradually turned into a gun fight. The Kiowa warriors lost three of their own but left with 40 mules[61]:95 heavily laden with supplies. But at independence, the best estimates were that the republic had 30,000 Anglo-Americans and Hispanic residents. [8] In the battle there were three decisive battles between the Comanches and the Texas Rangers. In 1862, warriors from these tribes united to attack the Tonkawas. The battle was long and drawn out almost to the point of the United States army running out of ammunition. Mackenzie had sent his personal word if Quanah surrendered, all his band would be treated honorably, and none charged with any offense. 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. It also promised mutual reports on wrongdoing, and promised that both sides would curtail their lawbreakers. As of July 2013, there were roughly 25-30 native speakers of the language, according to The Boston Globe. The Battle was the first battle in which the Texas Rangers were able to enter the Comanche land of Comancheria. Texas Tech University, 1967. In August 1843, a temporary treaty accord led to a ceasefire between the Comanches and their allies, and the Texians. As far as Deets goes, he says in "Lonesome Dove" that he came to Texas from Louisanna. Under Meusebach's leadership, and with the help of Indian Agent Robert Neighbors, regular expeditions into Indian-controlled lands took place both to survey the lands the Society wished to settle, and to find and negotiate with the Penateka Comanche. [66], The Second Battle of Adobe Walls came during the Red River War as the Plains tribes realized, with increasing desperation, that the buffalo hunters were killing off their food supply and thus the very means of survival for their people. 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