Dressing Point massacre
1826 murders of Karankawa people in Mexican Texas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dressing Point massacre refers to the murder in 1826 of 40–50 Karankawa people in Mexican Texas near present-day Matagorda at the mouth of the Colorado River by Texan farmers, in response to the constant murders and depredations against Stephen F. Austin's Anglo colonists who settled along the Colorado River in Texas.