Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. II

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845

fear to tell them of it, and if they get mad and kill me, I'll go content; and white men then will say that Red Bear died in try- ing to make peace." The man, I have pointed out yonder, did net say much, but after he had left, four others, better looking came to me, and said they stole them from the whites, they knew they had done wrong to steal: The animals were all fat and greasy, like those fed in salt and corn. There were two of them sorrels one so tall that he would touch that pole, (pointing to the roof) two others gray; the rest small Spanish horses, be- longing to the whites. The Waco chief Narhashtowey (the "lame arm") is get- ting mad; he need not be, for I am speaking truth." Talk of Nar-hash-tow-ey. "We wish you to stop, and talk no more, if the horses are in the possession of the Waco or Tawakoni you shall have them soon: if with the Tawehash 'twill take us some time longer. we will go hunt for them and bring them in." Talk of Acaquash. "My people have been accused; we know of two Ioni who stole at one time three horses on the Colorado, and at another time three. it occurred last winter. one we now see here. Jim Shaw knows him." The Ioni is pointed out and brought in. Talk of Red Bear for the Joni. "This young man "is an Ioni, who lives with the Tawehash, and has now a wife among the Tawehash people. This spring as he was leading his young men to war he came to my village. I told him his people had made peace with the whites, and he was doing wrong and that we were about coming in to the council. he said he did not know it, he had never heard of a council; never been to one. but he would come to this and steal no more. That he had now a one eyed Bay horse at the Tawe- hash village. one of six taken from the whites. four of them were stolen by the Pawnee and one gave out. the other one , now at the Tawehash village, which he was willing to give up." Commissioners to the Keechi. Corns. "Can you tell us any thing of a white boy, which we hear is now in your possession?"