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The Apache Indians in Texas
a Lipan-Jicarilla group, that their line of migration took them
east to the plains and south to the gulf, and that they were lately
forced westward and northward, to be finally located with the
Mescalero," the separation taking place about the opening of the
seventeenth century.17 In the eighteenth century they were
living in the area from the upper Nueces and Medina rivers to
the upper Colorado and Red rivers, but they gradually retired
from the northern part under the growing pressure from hostile
Indians. "Perhaps the most significant feature of the entire
Indian situation was the implacable hatred for the Apache felt
by the nations of the North. On this hostility turned much of
the history of Texas for several decades."s
Prior to the permanent settlement at San Antonio in 1718,
both Spanish and French had encountered the Apache. The
Frenchman Henri Joutel had aided other Texas Indians against
them, and in 1692 the Texas Indians east of the Colorado had
obtained Spanish assistance in a campaign against them.19
Louis de St. Denis encountered the Apache on the San Marcos in
1714 and successfully withstood their assault.20 A few years
later the Spanish entered upon a long period of relations alter-
nating between war and attempts at establishing peace.
In time of the . .. . [Marquez de San Miguel de Aguayo, 1720] the attacks
[insultos] of the common and most perifidious enemy of the Internal
Provinces, the Apache tribe, had begun to be experienced [and], afterward
they were so often repeated and so cruel that they compelled the governor
[Fernando Perez de Almazan] to ask for permission to wage a vigorous
war against the tribe if they did not consumate the peace which they had
promised.21
Apacheans consisted of Navajo, White River Apache [in Arizona],
Chiricahua Apache, Mezcalero Apaches, and others." Harrington, "South-
ern Peripheral Athapaskawan Origins, Divisions, and Investigations," Es-
says in Historical Anthropology, 510, 512, 522, 532. For a discussion of the
Apache and their location in the late eighteenth century see El Teniente
Coronel Don Cordero, Noticias ... , Documentos Historicos sobre Durango,
MS., 93, Bancroft Library, University of California.
17Morris Edward Opler, Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians
(New York, 1940), 5-6.
18H. E. Bolton, Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century (Berkeley,
1915), 4.
10W. E. Dunn, "Apache Relations in Texas, 1718-1750," Quarterly of the
Texas State Historical Association, XIV (January, 1911), 204, a basic,
detailed study of the period.
20Morfi, History of Texas, I, 170.
21Don Antonio Bonilla, "A Brief Compendium of the Events Which
Have Occurred in the Province of Texas from Its Conquest, or Reduction,
to the Present Date," trans. Elizabeth Howard West, in Quarterly of the
Texas State Historical Association, VIII (July, 1904), 36 ft.; Morfi, History
of Texas, I, 199, 243.193
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