The Bear River Massacre

The Bear River Massacre PDF Author: Darren Parry
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ISBN: 9781948218191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.

The Bear River Massacre

The Bear River Massacre PDF Author: Darren Parry
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ISBN: 9781948218191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.

The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre

The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre PDF Author: Brigham D. Madsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Massacre at Bear River

Massacre at Bear River PDF Author: Rod Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although it has been largely ignored by historians, it was the war waged against the Shoshoni tribe that opened the book on Indian massacres in the West. The Shoshoni were victims of a bloodbath more extreme than that at Wounded Knee, and more deadly than the more famous slaughter at Sand Creek.

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History PDF Author: Kass Fleisher
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079148520X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks of the Bear River, where, with the tacit approval of Abraham Lincoln, they attacked and slaughtered nearly three hundred Northwestern Shoshoni men, women, and children. Evidence suggests that, in the hours after the attack, the troops raped the surviving women—an act still denied by some historians and Shoshoni elders. In exploring why a seminal act of genocide is still virtually unknown to the U.S. public, Kass Fleisher chronicles the massacre itself, and investigates the National Park Service's proposal to create a National Historic Site to commemorate the massacre—but not the rape. When she finds herself arguing with a Shoshoni woman elder about whether the rape actually occurred, Fleisher is forced to confront her own role as a maker of this conflicted history, and to examine the legacy of white women "busybodies."

Blood on the Marias

Blood on the Marias PDF Author: Paul R. Wylie
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong encampment. Intended as a retaliation against Mountain Chief’s renegade band, the massacre sparked public outrage when news sources revealed that the battalion had attacked Heavy Runner’s innocent village—and that guides had told its inebriated commander, Major Eugene Baker, he was on the wrong trail, but he struck anyway. Remembered as one of the most heinous incidents of the Indian Wars, the Baker Massacre has often been overshadowed by the better-known Battle of the Little Bighorn and has never received full treatment until now. Author Paul R. Wylie plumbs the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, who were members of the Blackfeet Confederacy. His research shows the tribe was trading furs for whiskey with the Hudson’s Bay Company before Meriwether Lewis encountered them in 1806. As American fur traders and trappers moved into the region, the U.S. government soon followed, making treaties it did not honor. When the gold rush started in the 1860s and the U.S. Army arrived, pressure from Montana citizens to control the Piegans and make the territory safe led Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to send Baker and the 2nd Cavalry, with tragic consequences. Although these generals sought to dictate press coverage thereafter, news of the cruelty of the killings appeared in the New York Times, which called the massacre “a more shocking affair than the sacking of Black Kettle’s camp on the Washita” two years earlier. While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-forgotten incident.

Civil War Saints

Civil War Saints PDF Author: Kenneth L. Alford
Publisher: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center
ISBN: 9780842528160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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Collection of essays and articles about the US Civil War, with a focus on, but not limited to, people who were either members or later became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Topics include historical facts about actual events, people, landmarks, and stories; most of which are connected to the US Civil War.

The Bear River Massacre

The Bear River Massacre PDF Author: Newell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Sagwitch

Sagwitch PDF Author: Scott R. Christensen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Sagwitch, "the Speaker," was a leader of the Shoshone people. Following the Bear River Massacre he lead the survivors. He and his band later were baptized as members of the Mormon church and settled the Washakie Indian colony in northern Utah.

The Sand Creek Massacre

The Sand Creek Massacre PDF Author: Stan Hoig
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187123
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Sometimes called "The Chivington Massacre" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and "The Battle of Sand Creek" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation’s most controversial Indian conflicts. The subject of army and Congressional investigations and inquiries, a matter of vigorous newspaper debates, the object of much oratory and writing biased in both directions, the Sand Creek Massacre very likely will never be completely and satisfactorily resolved. This account of the massacre investigates the historical events leading to the battle, tracing the growth of the Indian-white conflict in Colorado Territory. The author has shown the way in which the discontent stemming from the treaty of Fort Wise, the depredations committed by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes prior to the massacre, and the desire of some of the commanding officers for a bloody victory against the Indians laid the groundwork for the battle at Sand Creek.

Shadows at Dawn

Shadows at Dawn PDF Author: Karl Jacoby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101159510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.