Tonkawa Massacre

When

24 Oct 1862

Kind

Massacre

Coordinates

36.68° N, 97.31° W

Description

massacre of Tonkawa tribe members during the American Civil War

Placed at the town its title names, Tonkawa.

Massacre of Tonkawa tribe members during the American Civil War

The Tonkawa massacre occurred after an attack at the Confederate-held Wichita Agency, located at Fort Cobb near Anadarko in the Indian Territories, when a detachment of irregular Union Indian troops, made up of the Tonkawa's long-hated tribal enemies, detected a weakness at Fort Cobb due to the Civil War and attacked the agency, home to 300-390 members of the Tonkawa, a tribe sympathetic to the Confederacy.

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