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A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.
Author : Darren Parry
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948218191
A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.
Author : Rod Miller
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
Author : Kass Fleisher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079148520X
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."
Author : Newell Hart
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Paul R. Wylie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0806155574
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.
Author : Kenneth L. Alford
Publisher : Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780842528160
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.
Author : Scott R. Christensen
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806187123
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.
Author : Kass Fleisher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791460634
Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.
Author : Brigham D. Madsen
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :