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132 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
The Comanches, one of the most powerful and hostile tribes in
North America, wandered from the sources of the Brazos and Col-
orado to the sources of the Red, Arkansas, and Missouri rivers."
In Texas they usually ranged north and northwest of B6jar.2
Although they were in general one of the most warlike tribes,
it is said, upon credible local authority, that in Texas they
were usually at peace with the Anglo-Americans, and spoke of
the people of the United States as their friends.8
The Karankawas, one of the fiercest of the Texas tribe, inhab-
ited the coast region.4 There is convincing evidence that they
were cannibals.5
The Tonkawas were said to have ranged along the Brazos west-
ward to the sources of the Guadalupe.6 They were one of the most
friendly of the tribes.
The Kechi tribe lived along the banks of the Trinity River.7
They had a village in what is now Leon County, about two and a
half miles north of the present town of Centerville. They usually
1Donaldson, The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U. S. National
Museum in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution, 1885, Part II 892.
' Holley, Texas (1836), 152.
sA Texas Emigrant, 41-42. In 1829 they refused to join the Tawakanas
and Wacos in plans for a general war with the Mexicans and Americans,
saying that they were at peace with the people of the country. (Green
De Witt to Ram6n Musquiz, May 8, 1829. Bexar Archives).
4La Fora map (1766) in the possession of Dr. H. E. Bolton of the
University of Texas; Kenney, History of the Indian Tribes of Texas in
A Comprehensive History of Texas, I 725. Morse says the Karankawas
were an erratic tribe on the San Jacinto River between the Trinity and
the Brazos, and that the Tonkawas were on the Bay of San Bernardo (Don-
aldson, The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U. S. National Museum
in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, 1885, Part II 892).
5 THE QUARTERLY, IV 52; V 16; Kenney, History of the Indian Tribes of
Texas in A Comprehensive History of Texas, I 725; letter of General James
Long, August 1819, in Niles' Register, XVII 31. Kuykendall (A Texas
Scrap Book, 145) says, however, that probably the only cannibalism to
which they were addicted was that of eating pieces of an enemy's flesh at
a war dance to inspire them with courage.
SKenney, History of the Indian Tribes of Texas in A Comprehensive
History of Texas, I 732; see also above, note 4.
7Donaldson, The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U. S. National
Museum in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution, 1885, Part II 892; THE QUARTERLY, IV 203-205.
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