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War Department orders surveys for Indian reservations
On this day in 1854, the U.S. War Department ordered Randolph B. Marcy, in conjunction with Indian agent Robert S. Neighbors, to locate and survey land for Indian reservations in unsettled territory, preferably on timbered land of good soil adjacent to navigable water. The sites selected after consultation with the various Indian groups concerned were four leagues of land on the Brazos River below Fort Belknap for the use of the Caddos, Wacos, and other Indians, and another tract of the same size forty miles away on the Clear Fork of the Brazos for the use of the Comanches. A third tract of four leagues adjoined the one on the Brazos and was intended for the use of the Indians living west of the Pecos River, chiefly the Mescalero and Lipan Apaches. These western Indians, however, failed to come in to the reservation, and this tract was added to the Brazos agency, making that reservation total eight leagues. Both reservations reverted to the state when the Indians were removed to the Indian Territory in 1859.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- INDIAN RESERVATIONS
- MARCY, RANDOLPH BARNES
- NEIGHBORS, ROBERT SIMPSON
- BRAZOS INDIAN RESERVATION
- COMANCHE INDIAN RESERVATION
- COMANCHE INDIANS
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