 The council was sacred not only to the [Comanche] People but to all Native Americans".In response, the captives the Texians sought were killed and Buffalo Hump launched the Great Raid of 1840, leading hundreds of Comanche warriors on raids against many Texian villages.The Texians, for their part, were shocked and disgusted by the actions of the barbaric Comanches in torturing to death the innocent captives.