Troubled Times in The New State
While Texas was a Republic, Tonkawa land was respected, especially since their help against the warlike Comanche was vital to the young Republic. But after Texas became a state, white settlers increasingly trespassed and settled on Tonkawa land. Plácido tried repeatedly and sometimes unsuccessfully to keep the peace, but his influence waned as his people’s aid against the Comanche was not vital once the U.S. Army, with its virtually limitless resources, assumed the guardianship of the frontier. In 1854, he and his people went to a reservation on the Brazos created by Robert Neighbors. It was from that reservation that Placido and his people went forth to fight for the same Texans who drove them on the reservation.
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