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The Alabama Indians of Texas
a young Coshatti, who had been at Natchitoches with Red Shoes,
killed a white man, confessed the deed, and admitted that he had
wanted to commit the murder at Natchitoches, but the chiefs had
restrained him.31 There were rumors afloat that some of the neigh-
boring tribes were gathering at the lower Coshatti village for the
war dance,32 and Pia Mingo had gone to the upper village, ostensibly
to persuade them to come and live on the Sabine. Sibley, however,
believed that he was sent by Cordero, the Spanish governor at San
Antonio, as part of a plan to stir up the Indians west of the
Mississippi against the Americans. These tribes were to be moved
across the Red and the Sabine where they would make a formidable
barrier to the invasion of Texas.33
Immediately after the murder, the Coshattis in the lower village
began cutting their corn preparatory to abandoning their homes
and moving into the dominions of Spain.34 They crossed the
Sabine in 1807 and settled on the Trinity about three leagues
below the village of Salcedo.85 On Sibley's urgent request that they
come to Natchitoches for a friendly visit, they sent him the follow-
ing message:
That they were fully sensible of Our goodness towards them, and
were greatly distressed at what had happened and they would never
let go our hands or throw away Our talks; but they had been sent
for by Governor Cordero of St Antonio, & had promised to go &
See him, they did not know for what; but that they would Come to
Natchitoches as soon as they returned from St Antonio and do
their endeavour to have every thing Settled; but they Could not
then think of giving up the Young Man who had Committed the
Murder the fact they did not pretend to deny . . .
A few years after their immigration to Texas, a party of Coshattis
under their chief Rollins, a half-breed, joined the Magee-Gutierrez
expedition. They were in Kemper's army against the Royalists at
"Ibid., 14-5, 19-20, 32-9, 46-7.
"Ibid., 16-7.
"Ibid., 23-4; also Cox, I. J., The Louisiana-Texas Frontier in South-
western Historical Quarterly, XVII, 154-69.
"Abel, ed., A Report from Natchitoches in 1807 by Dr. John Sibley, 31-2.
""Undated MS., "Don Samuel Davenport's Report of the Indian Nations
of the Province of Texas" in Bexar Archives, University of Texas Library.
"Abel., ed., A Report from Natchitoches in 1807 by Dr. John Sibley, 67-8.
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