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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
Musquis 30 July 1868
S S Brown Esq Piedras Negras
M. Menchaca y Longoria
{Note: This is Brown's translation of the letter written in Spanish. Both .copies are included in the report.]
No. 189 EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL MEXICAN PAPERS [September 1, 1868] Extracts from Official Mexican papers Report Upon Indians and tribal peoples Pertaining to the territory of the United "E"
States, now harboured by the Mexicans in the State of Co- ahuila, Mexico.
Sept 1st 1868 Document No 2 Presidency Council of Musquis No 96
To day arrived here the captains Mexepote and Megried returning from their expedition they had made with forty Kickapoo in the wilderness. There leaders having generl notice to have defeated the Lipan Indians and destroy a ranch of Mescalero and Lipan in- dians-located between the old Presidio de La Bahia at the Rio Grande these tribes had 26 indians killed of both sexes of whom they have brought in the scalp; they brought here also two fe- male indians-2 carbines-5 tomahawks-three sixshooters- bows and arrows and held ground In the said fight the Kickapoo had one man wounded. The indians have been assisted with sixteen dollars in am- munition which was taken from the district funds. Now they inform me they want much things, and that the Superiority will make his disposition this matter. We have made a voluntary subscription in this village col- lecting something for the purpose of assisting the indians as
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