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They were overwhelmed by the sheer
numbers of their attackers. Six were killed, five were captured, and the
rest fled into the wilderness. One of the Indians’ captives was a nine-year-old
girl, Cynthia Ann Parker. John Parker had signed a treaty of friendship
with Indians barely a year earlier. Treaties between
Indians and Europeans were seldom honored. Neither party understood
the other’s culture. Europeans did not know that each Indian band
was autonomous, and a treaty signed by one chief had no standing with another.
Indians did not understand that as governance in the region changed from
Spanish to Mexican to Texan to American, new governments did not feel bound
by treaties signed by their predecessors. |
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