Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Massacre of the Marias

Another unspoken event in the conflict between the Native Americans and the US Government would be the Massacre of the Marias which happened in 1870.


Colonel Baker and his men were after Mountain Chief's camp to catch and kill a fugitive. On that day Colonel Baker was drunk and when they approached the camp, one of his men told him he was at the wrong camp. But Baker didn't care he said "That makes no difference, one band or another of them; they are all Piegans(Pikunis) and we will attack them."(Welch 31) So they attacked the camp and killed 173 people who were mostly still in their lodges. After that they collapsed the lodges and burned them to the ground with the people still inside. Most of those killed on that day were women and children. One commander said that this massacre was "the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by US troops."

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home