TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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are stalled at "Big-Creek" some 30 miles below. We have not a pound of Tobacco at this place, so that if the Indians arrive and the trains do not get up we shall be in rather an ugly fix with some hundreds of red folk on our hands and no tobacco or beef-there are herds of buffalo within a short distance, but it is much as we can do to get meat enough out of them to answer present purposes-we have some 300 bushels of Corn here and more on the way up a little of this has been rationed out for the women and children of the Delaware Caddo and Shawnee already here but this has been done with a sparing hand as a matter of necessity. I draw of your general instructions for my government and that you will have the goodness to define my duties, so that I may execute yr. orders to the letter, thus far I have acted according to my best judgement, pursueing such a course as 'in my opinion would meet yr. approbation, as I trust it will. Mr. Sloat has finished the Council house a building 32 by 20 ft. He is an active and industrious man-With sentimats of respect I have the honor to be yr mo obt sert. T G W Superind. Indian Affrs.
No. 19 MINUTES OF A COUNCIL AT TEHUACANA CREEK
Council Ground, Tehuacana Creek. Saturday Evening April 27th 1844.
Minutf:s of a Council called by the Commissioners and the Su- p!?rintendent of Indian Affairs, for the purpose of making known to the several Tribes of Indians assembled, the probable time in which they would unite in Council for business, and the rea- son of their present delay. Maj Thos. G. Western, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, presided at the Council. Col. Neill, Commissioner, was present; St. Louis, Chief of the Delaware, Jose Maria, the Anadarko Chief with Besente, his orderly sergeant; Bintah and Red Bear, Caddo Chiefs, with Had-dah-bah a Captain and Ne-est-choo an orderly sergeant; Bedi, the Ioni Chief and Cho-Nah-Cio and Kah-te-ah-tic Chiefs of the Keechi, with many of their warriors. The Council was opened by lighting and passing the pipe of
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