Tonkawa Massacre

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tonkawa Massacre (October 23-24, 1862) occurred after an attack at the Confederate held, Wichita Agency located at Fort Sill near Anadarko in Oklahoma, when a force of pro-Union tribes attacked the agency home to 300 members of the Tonkawa, a tribe sympathetic to the Confederacy. During the attack on the Confederate held agency, the Confederate Indian agent Leeper and several other whites where killed. In response to this attack the Tonkawa fled southward toward Confederate held Fort Arbuckle, before they could reach the safety of the fort they were caught on October 24. In the resulting massacre, the estimates of Tonkawa dead are 137 men, women and children among them Chief Plácido, or Ha-shu-ka-na (Can't Kill Him). There are varying accounts of the tribes involved in the massacre with the Lenape, Osage, Shawnee, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa and Seminole being named in some accounts.