...ed, and in 1836 they gave unmistakable signs of hostility to the colonists by acts of depredation and murder. Yoakum says that the Indians were kept quiet by the assurances of the committees of San Augustine and Nacogdoches, September 18, 1835, that their just and legal rights would be respected, and that no white man should interrupt them on their lands. Yet a different inference might be drawn fro...