Indian Massacres Indians
Indians Living in Collin County, Texas
Indians living in Collin County were of the Caddo, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, and Tonkawa tribes. The Delaware had a village in the vicinity of Fitzhugh Mills northeast of Allen. The Tonkawa had a village along Indian Creek northeast of McKinney. These tribes were peaceful farming/hunting Indians.
A Kiowa chief by the name of Spotted Tail moved his band to the flats between Frisco and Prosper in the mid 1840s. As long as his band lived in the area, Collin County was not attacked by marauding Indians. Spotted Tail helped bury the dead in a smallpox epidemic in 1873. He contracted the disease and died from it. He asked for a white man’s burial and was buried at the Buckner Cemetery in McKinney. Indians buried their dead vertically in a seated fetal position. White people buried their dead horizontally.
SISTER GROVE CREEK SITE
Northwest of Farmersville
This Indian site seems to be a large base camp, consisting of about 10 acres, occupied between A. D. 900-1600. A large Wylie Focus Pit was situated at the site, 24 meters in length, 18 meters in width and reaching a maximum depth of 4 meters. Excavation inside the structure revealed a number of small hearths and a flexed burial with a large dart point as a grave offering. The occupants of the site appear to have relied heavily upon deer, tortoise, small mammals and fresh-water mollusks for subsistence.
National Register of Historic Places
Indians living in Collin County were of the Caddo, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, and Tonkawa tribes. The Delaware had a village in the vicinity of Fitzhugh Mills northeast of Allen. The Tonkawa had a village along Indian Creek northeast of McKinney. These tribes were peaceful farming/hunting Indians.
A Kiowa chief by the name of Spotted Tail moved his band to the flats between Frisco and Prosper in the mid 1840s. As long as his band lived in the area, Collin County was not attacked by marauding Indians. Spotted Tail helped bury the dead in a smallpox epidemic in 1873. He contracted the disease and died from it. He asked for a white man’s burial and was buried at the Buckner Cemetery in McKinney. Indians buried their dead vertically in a seated fetal position. White people buried their dead horizontally.
SISTER GROVE CREEK SITE
Northwest of Farmersville
This Indian site seems to be a large base camp, consisting of about 10 acres, occupied between A. D. 900-1600. A large Wylie Focus Pit was situated at the site, 24 meters in length, 18 meters in width and reaching a maximum depth of 4 meters. Excavation inside the structure revealed a number of small hearths and a flexed burial with a large dart point as a grave offering. The occupants of the site appear to have relied heavily upon deer, tortoise, small mammals and fresh-water mollusks for subsistence.
National Register of Historic Places