Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
They fought no major conflicts with Whites during the Texas era (other than the forcible eviction of Chief Bowles's East Texas Cherokees). But, given that while some Shawnees for example were guiding Hill Country settlers, OTHER Shawnees 700 miles to the west were collecting Apache scalps for bounty, and in light of the fact of Lt. Pat's accounting of Texas Cherokee atrocities, it seems probable that at least some White travellers out on the Plains were quietly "disappeared" over the years .



Actually, almost all Texas tribes committed atrocities against the white settlers. They thought of the new arrivals as a novelty at first, good for slaves, cool stuff and basically a "good time". Not just Cherokees...my bad.


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