Comanche Warriors and Stolen Horses
I wouldn’t want the readers here to overlook the federally mandated Native American Heritage month of November and Friday’s Native American Heritage Day.
We’ll start with my old friends at No Pasaran:
Thanksgiving a “Myth” or a “Problematic Holiday”? What Nobody Tells You About Indians and Other Native Americans
Every time I hear about the tragedy (the tragedies) suffered by the Indians of North America (whether at Thanksgiving or at any other time), I bring up some variant of the following questions:
Do the calamities also include the theft of the lands of the Apaches? Does the genocide, real or alleged, of the Native Americans also concern the extermination of the Huron tribe (Huronia)?
This type of question usually boondoggles the leftist, whose eyes grow like saucers and who waffles trying to reply, since in his eagerness to sum up American and world history by meting out simplified explanations in one-sentence platitudes (that conveniently, and invariably, happen to be damning towards Americans, i.e., white Americans), he has neither had nor taken the time to think any details through as he attempts to display his alleged expertise as a modern-day genius.
The problem, of course, is that the lands of the Apaches were stolen by the Comanches.
While the Hurons were wiped out by the Iroquois.
What, wait, I thought the Indians were all-wise, worshipers of the Great Spirit, lovers of nature, peace-loving harmonizers with Mother Earth.
After conquering the Aztec and the Inca empires, in addition to large parts of South America as well as all of Central America, why did the Spanish armies not march further into North America (where the English had remained along the Atlantic coast while the French were focused on Québec and had barely crossed West across the Mississippi)?
The answer is the Comanche tribe, which was (I am prepared to apologize for the upcoming un-PC term beforehand) the bloodthirstiest people the Spanish superpower had ever encountered, and which brought the Spaniards’ advance to an abrupt halt in Tejas (in Texas).
Indeed, in his position as a military historian and a professor at the Sandhurst Military Academy, John Keegan described the Comanches as the fiercest warriors the planet has ever known.
If we had sent the Comanches to Afghanistan, we would have won that war because there wouldn’t be a single Taliban, ISIS or Al-Qaeda member left alive in the country. The entire Middle East would have been terrified to death of the Comanche Battalion of the American military.
This explains the “intolerant” attitude of White settlers, explains Time-Life’s The Frontiersmen.
“In the 18th century, frontiersmen, who had seen the bodies of pregnant women slit open by war parties and the fetuses of unborn babies left impaled on poles beside them, were not inclined to ponder the political attitudes of any Indian if granted opportunity for revenge.”
So much for smoking the peace pipe, I guess.
Who doesn’t know the “trail of tears and death,” when Andrew Jackson expelled tens of thousands of Indians from East side of the Mississippi? During one 1,200-mile trek, “thousands … died from exposure, malnutrition, and disease” and the grounds were littered with the bodies of “red-skins” and “Negroes.” Wait a minute, what did you say? “Negroes”? Blacks? What do you mean by that?! Oh, you didn’t know? The Cherokees, who are often presented as one of prime examples that Indians were, or could be, civilized (they had their own alphabet and newspapers), practiced slavery. Yes sir. And do not forget that a number of these Indians enlisted during the Civil War — on the side of the Confederacy. For sure, this was one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” (besides the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, the Creek, the Seminole, and the Choctaw) and, as it happens, one of the main slavery rebellions and escape attempts of the 19th century was a slave revolt against the cruelty of one particularly nasty Cherokee slave-owner.
It is now March of 1840 in the new Republic of Texas at San Antonio.
The 16-year-old girl’s once-beautiful face was grotesque.
She had been disfigured beyond all recognition in the 18 months she had been held captive by the Comanche Indians.
Now, she was being offered back to the Texan authorities by Indian chiefs as part of a peace negotiation.
To gasps of horror from the watching crowds, the Indians presented her at the Council House in the ranching town of San Antonio in 1840, the year Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
‘Her head, arms and face were full of bruises and sores,’ wrote one witness, Mary Maverick. ‘And her nose was actually burnt off to the bone. Both nostrils were wide open and denuded of flesh.’
Once handed over, Matilda Lockhart broke down as she described the horrors she had endured — the rape, the relentless sexual humiliation and the way Comanche women had tortured her with fire. It wasn’t just her nose, her thin body was hideously scarred all over with burns.
When she mentioned she thought there were 15 other white captives at the Indians’ camp, all of them being subjected to a similar fate, the Texan lawmakers and officials said they were detaining the Comanche chiefs while they rescued the others.
What happened to Squanto and Tonto ?
When that Indian delegation to San Antonio realised they were to be detained, they tried to fight their way out with bows and arrows and knives — killing any Texan they could get at. In turn, Texan soldiers opened fire, slaughtering 35 Comanche, injuring many more and taking 29 prisoner.
But the Comanche tribe’s furious response knew no bounds. When the Texans suggested they swap the Comanche prisoners for their captives, the Indians tortured every one of those captives to death instead.
‘One by one, the children and young women were pegged out naked beside the camp fire,’ according to a contemporary account. ‘They were skinned, sliced, and horribly mutilated, and finally burned alive by vengeful women determined to wring the last shriek and convulsion from their agonized bodies. Matilda Lockhart’s six-year-old sister was among these unfortunates who died screaming under the high plains moon.’
It was the Comanche women in charge of the most brutal torture, mutilation and murder. Remember this when liars and frauds tell you female political leaders will bring peace and compassion to the peoples of all nations.
And then we come to August of 1840 at Victoria and Linville, Texas…
The sacking of Victoria and Linnville in August 1840 in what was then Victoria County was the strategic object of a great Comanche raid in 1840, the most terrifying of all Comanche raids in Southeast Texas. The attack originated as an aftermath of the Council House Fight in San Antonio in March 1840. By August the Penateka Comanches were able to accept the leadership of their remaining chief, Buffalo Hump, the others having been killed in the Council House Fight. In what became the largest of all southern Comanche raids, Buffalo Hump launched a retaliatory attack down the Guadalupe valley east and south of Gonzales. The band numbered perhaps as many as 1,000, including the families of the warriors, who followed to make camps and seize plunder. The number of warriors was probably between 400 and 500, though witnesses put the figure higher. The total included a good number of Kiowas and Mexican guides.
The Comanches made not the last, but the final huge raid in Texas, at Victoria and Linnville near the coast.
By this time the men of Victoria had recruited reinforcements from the Cuero Creek settlement. On the morning of August 7 the combined forces joined volunteers from the Gonzales and Lavaca settlements under Adam Zumwalt and Benjamin McCulloch and skirmished with the Comanches about twelve miles east of Victoria on Marcado Creek and again on Casa Blanca Creek, two branches of Garcitas Creek. The Indians stole away with their captives and plunder but were defeated by volunteers at Plum Creek near the site of present Lockhart on August 12 (see PLUM CREEK, BATTLE OF). Although the Indians tried to kill their Victoria and Linnville captives during this final battle, Juliet Watts’s corset prevented her arrow wound from killing her. She returned to the Linnville area, married Dr. J. M. Stanton, and opened the Stanton House, the first hotel in Port Lavaca, the new settlement established on the bay 3½ miles southwest by displaced Linnville residents.
I will stop here after ruining your bucolic, peaceful Thanksgiving respite. Taking Texas and turning it into an independent republic and then a member of the United States was no easy, peaceful job. The men and women who accomplished this can never be awarded enough gratitude and respect for their valor and courage.
Any and all efforts to dispel the fantasies and fakery of American media and academy in the perpetuation of historical fraudulences are worth all the discomforts and shocking realities of the truth.
I have other interesting resources to add to the front page over the weekend.
Hmm, it appears that Houston is off to a flying stop after the election regarding today’s water supply debacle. Shutting down water service to the whole city when only one area has had the problem could be considered overkill. Happy are those who live within the city limits but have their own water supply from their own wells.
I noticed the low water pressure earlier.
Well, I have a few gallons of filtered water and a big (but slow) water filter to clean my tap water.
And our rainwater tank is full, so….
96 TexMo
WTH ?
You’ve got to be kidding. These Democrats can’t even keep the water running.
Houston has issued a boil water notice for the entire city due to low water pressure at one of its water purification plants.
I was fortunate this weekend, actually Friday afternoon, to harvest a yearling deer. It has been yummy. Pan seared tenderloins for breakfast yesterday and venison stew in the crock-pot, shoulder and hind quarter, for food today. Primitive man got awakened.
There is a small plane hanging from a high tension power tower in Maryland near DC. Lots of people without power, but the occupants of the plane are in communication with ground personnel. Some YT news reports out there too. Be interesting to see how they are going to get them down. Be interesting to see how the plane wound… Read more »
Apple rigged the game in favor of the Chicoms and nowhere else. Sorry, rotten, evil SOBs. Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month.… Read more »
Sampled that soup and it’s pretty good if I do say so myself. I tamed it down from the last time, so it is not quite so spicy, but still tasty. I had about half a cup of chili left in the fridge, so I just tossed that in there too. It will probably be even better tomorrow.
Now that the crew is gone, all of the dangerous foodstuffs have been properly removed from the premises and fed to the varmits or put into the trash bin for tomorrow’s pickup I decided that I’d better take some aggressive action to get myself back on the straight and narrow. I think I mentioned that the dangerous food items that… Read more »
Maybe you could make a pink rosary, with a pink crocheted case????
#90
She’s already asked me for something crocheted and pink for Christmas. She did notice my pink beads, so maybe I could make her a pink rosary. That’s a great idea.
#89 Tedtam – perhaps it would be a nice Christmas gift???
Little Elizabeth saw me this morning as I was talking to my friend. She asked me for one of my rosaries, and I told her she needed to ask Mommy first. Mommy said no. I’m guessing Mommy is trying to teach her manners and not to always ask for stuff. LE is very good at asking for gifts from me.… Read more »
I wasn’t feeling well last night and the head is still a little woozy today. I talked with a friend after church and I suddenly snapped to the fact that I began to feel out of it after I started the steroids. She affirmed that it could be causing some of my problems, as well as or because of my… Read more »
Good Afternoon Hamsters, The wind is up such that Old Glory on the front porch is swaying with vigor. I’m in the midst of switching seasonal banners on the front porch, but the two Teddy bears making a snowman banner is still waiting inside until it is no longer likely to fly around the yard. Old Glory is securely anchored… Read more »
I noticed Steve Bannon opened up a can of whoopass on Trump and his campaign staff last night over the Kanye West and Nick Fuentes meeting at Mar-a-Lago. I am glad somebody did and I hope they listen to him.
#82 El Gordo
Mike Patey never ceases to amaze me. The amount of thought and engineering that go into his projects is simply amazing. His house is so over engineered it could probably withstand a direct hit from a nuclear blast. 🙂
#82: How could you live with yourself and continue to give shots? It is not like a secret that the shots are killing people.
Morning, chickadees.
NOTE: I got THAT FAR (above), but forgot it needs to be posted…
But at least I didn’t mess up the sudoku today.
The remains of Thanksgiving dinner and some large meals prepared the day before should all be consumed by the end of today. I spent some time yesterday cleaning up the Excursion’s battery terminals which were severely corroded only to find out the battery would not take a charge. It’s four years old so it’s time for a new one. Meanwhile… Read more »
Here’s an update on the Patey swimming pool project that maybe SD and perhaps a few others may enjoy. Can you say over engineered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UMkdcc0AcA
A healthy, middle-aged woman in Saskatchewan, Canada goes to the drug store to get her Covid booster shot. Seven minutes in the fifteen minute waiting period post-injection, she drops dead onto the floor.
81 SD
I noted this the other day and asked why Texas is still a participant in this left wing scheme.
Alabama Withdraws From Democrat Operative-Controlled Voter Registration Database. Alabama’s Secretary of State-elect Wes Allen has announced that he will withdraw the state from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a voter-roll management system with politically compromised ties. “I made a promise that I would withdraw Alabama from ERIC and I am keeping that promise,” Allen said in a statement. “I… Read more »
#78 – OMG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SUfDhvUTM
Texpat @ 9:44 that is really sad and this stood out; “She was no longer the Annabella I’d known all her life,” Melinda said. “This girl was the most bubbly breath of fresh air to everyone. She lit up a room. But the light was stolen from her at that school. It was extinguished. It was no different than if… Read more »
Nobody is gonna’ steal his shackles by dang-it! 😀
Varmit update: Turns out that nothing out there last night likes mashed potatoes. They licked the cherry cobbler clean, they licked all the gravy off the taters, but they left the taters alone. Another of life’s mysteries I suppose. Wonder if they will compose if I throw them in the pile?
I think I’ve found a new sideline gig. But the time she graduated from the school, which charges $60,000 a year in tuition, in 2015, Rockwell said, she’d been “brainwashed” into believing she had been a lifelong victim of patriarchal oppression and had a duty to fight on behalf of other victims: women, people of color and LBGTQ folks. “I… Read more »
75 Super Dave
Your list is hilarious. I posted a comment the other day about the Tax Foundation’s 2023 best states for business in America and the rankings you list for gun ownership by Guns & Ammo are very close to good business climate ranks.
Freedom to carry a gun means freedom to do business.
Morning gang. I slept in this morning as I think I was tired from the company visit. Still plenty to do around here today, but I need coffee and wake up first. Warming up today, and back into the 70’s tomorrow. So I’ll probably wait until tomorrow to actually get outside for much. Got to get back on the straight… Read more »
Guns & Ammo came out with this years best states for gun owners. They rate all 50 states and DC from 51 worse to 1 best. Texas comes in @ #8, slightly better than last year because of permitless carry. Alabama @ #16, slightly better, also permitless carry now. Others of interest to me was Alaska #10, Georgia #13, Mississippi… Read more »
If you haven’t read the Texas Scorecard article by Robert Montoya, you really should. Shannon linked to it last night and I read it before I went to sleep. Montoya rambles about and could use a good editor, but it’s still very informative. Abusive Medical Procedures: Protecting Children “When it’s evident that this is not a gravy train for the… Read more »
Yup, I hear Ya’ 😉
TCU 62 – Iowa State 14
Ouch.
SO! A&M beat LSU, Michigan beat Ohio State, TCU is still undefeated now what?! paging El Gordo Oh and Alabama beat Auburn, so there’s that. 😀
A little late getting in here but I made it. We had a got hard rain last night but it came through fast and left us with only .84″ of rain, with the .40″ the night before it was much needed and welcome. Bright sunny and warm this morning, yup, Life is Good.
Mornin’ Gang
Good Sunday Morning, Gang – another day the Lord has made
Well, bedtime has arrived out here. You all have a good night. More tomorrow.
I will never stop being amazed at how mediocre ESPN broadcasting is. I grew up in the golden age of sports broadcasting and especially Humble Oil sponsored SWC games with Kern Tips and his colleagues. I didn’t realize how lucky I was.
Shannon, I went through the car title stuff with my aunts car which I I took ownership of. I’ve already forgotten what the procedure and forms were, but I was surprised how cheap it was. The Hempstead office was equally as helpful.
Moose Muhammad ??! What a name. I bet you don’t meet many guys named Moose in downtown Baghdad.
That’s hilarious and so was that single left-handed catch.
#65
Thank you, Bobbie. It is very nice to be able to nap whenever the chance arises! I spent my life being busy, and now I’m enjoying the fact that there is almost nothing that I urgently have to get done.
P-nut butter of course!
Aggies 17 LSU 10 – 1:10 left in 1st half
#61 – Marilyn, we just finished off the green bean casserole leftovers with our fish and fries… forgot the cranberry sauce but it likely woulda been strange with “fish and chips” and green bean casserole. Not sure what goes well with leftover cranberry sauce… And I figure we’ll polish off Squawk’s Dutch Apple pie later… Hope you rested well –… Read more »
Nothing new to report, just watching football and having a cup of left over chili. Got text that the boys made it home safely, so all is good. Got all the laundry done, and two of the four beds made – including of course my bed so I’ll have a place to sleep. I’ll do the other two tomorrow or… Read more »
From Texas Scorecard:
Abusive Medical Procedures: Protecting Children
https://texasscorecard.com/investigations/abusive-medical-procedures-protecting-children/
recommended reading
LSU 0
Ags 7
at the end of the 1st
I did not realize I never posted anything today. I did sleep pretty late, but after I fed the cats, I had a small version of my standard breakfast and read the blog of all that had been posted thus far. I had no bananas, so my cottage cheese bowl wasn’t quite right, and t’will be the same tomorrow. While… Read more »