West Texas After the Civil War Chapter 17 Section 1
Native Americans Control the West (pages 390–391) By 1866 most Native Americans had been removed from eastern Texas. However, many Native groups still roamed west Texas. Federal soldiers left western Texas to fight in the Civil War, leaving the western regions vulnerable to attack. Settlers in West Texas were defenseless, and some moved east to safer areas.
Native Americans Control the West (pages 390–391) Forts were built too far apart, and there were not enough soldiers to prevent attacks by Native Americans. Native Americans had advantages because they knew the territory
Herman Lehmann
The Search for Peace (pages 391–392) In 1867 the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek was signed. Native Americans agreed to live on reservations in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Federal troops would not be allowed on Reservations.
The Search for Peace (pages 391–392) Many federal agents assigned by President Grant were Quakers, who did not believe in violence. Quaker Lawrie Tatum, the agent in Indian Territory, worked to educate the Plains people in agriculture so they could live in the Anglo world.
Lawrie Tatum
The Peace Policy Fails (pages 392–393) Peace did not come to western Texas because many Native American leaders did not sign the treaty. About one-half of the Comanches and many Kiowas refused to move to reservations.
The Peace Policy Fails (pages 392–393) Kiowa chief Satanta insisted that West Texas belonged to the Comanches and Kiowas. He believed that without the buffalo, they could not survive on reservations.
The Peace Policy Fails (pages 392–393) Kiowa chief Lone Wolf called for war. Ten Bears, a Comanche chief, argued that his people must be allowed to roam freely over the plains
The Peace Policy Fails (pages 392–393) Comanche chief Quanah Parker, son of Peta Nocona and Anglo American woman Cynthia Ann Parker Cynthia had been captured by Comanches as a child, spent 10 years trying to stop the spread of Anglo settlements.
Cynthia Ann Parker Quanah Parker