mreagant Wrote:
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> That is correct, Dave. There is a very good
> biography of Maj. Robert S. Neighbors written in
> the 50s/early 60s (I think) about the
> Comanche/Kiowa and some other tribes reservation
> effort in the 1850s in the vicinity of Fort
> Belknap. Among other things, it tells the story
> of those three Indians and several incidents that
> finally led to the ending of the attempt to make
> the system work in Texas. A very interesting
> story. Neighbors was murdered at Fort Belknap,
> appearently in a random act of violence.
Although the wagon train attack and murders were perpetrated by Satanta, Satank, and Big Tree, and they boasted of it on the Oklahoma reservation, there is considerable evidence that the violence and cattle thefts attributed to the Indians when they were living on the Brazos Reservations were in fact committed by local white men who wanted the Indians blamed. They were blamed, but eventually were moved out of Texas into Indian Territory for their own protection.
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> That is correct, Dave. There is a very good
> biography of Maj. Robert S. Neighbors written in
> the 50s/early 60s (I think) about the
> Comanche/Kiowa and some other tribes reservation
> effort in the 1850s in the vicinity of Fort
> Belknap. Among other things, it tells the story
> of those three Indians and several incidents that
> finally led to the ending of the attempt to make
> the system work in Texas. A very interesting
> story. Neighbors was murdered at Fort Belknap,
> appearently in a random act of violence.
Although the wagon train attack and murders were perpetrated by Satanta, Satank, and Big Tree, and they boasted of it on the Oklahoma reservation, there is considerable evidence that the violence and cattle thefts attributed to the Indians when they were living on the Brazos Reservations were in fact committed by local white men who wanted the Indians blamed. They were blamed, but eventually were moved out of Texas into Indian Territory for their own protection.