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		Laramie in 1854, and became known as the Grattan Massacre.
		An aggressive Lt. Grattan and 28 men then left Fort Laramie with a single objective--punish the Sioux.
		But word of the Bear Rive Massacre, and a similar event in Sand Creek Colorado, soon spread to tribes across the west.
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	Grattan massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grattan massacre occurred in what is today Nebraska, USA on August 17, 1854 near Fort Laramie, in which a number of US soldiers were killed by Brule Sioux.
		Grattan was an inexperienced and quick to anger young man who was looking for a fight with the Indians to prove himself.
		For his handling of the battle at Ash Hollow, Harney was known afterwards among the Sioux as "The Butcher." Crazy Horse was a child at the massacre and survived; he had a spiritual vision foretelling of his future as a warrior.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grattan_Massacre (598 words)

	Indian massacres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In theory, massacre applied to the killing of civilian noncombatants or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war.
		Similarly, massacres were sometimes mislabeled "battles" in an attempt to give legitimacy to what would today be considered a war crime.
		1855 - Grattan Massacre, Brule Sioux in Nebraska Territory.
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	Grattan Massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A commander at Laramie later recalled "There is no doubt that Lt. Grattan left this post with a desire to have a fight with the Indians, and that he had determined to take the man at all hazards."
		This started a volly of fire from both sides and Grattan and all of his men were killed.
		News of the "massacre" reached the (A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947) War Department and plans were put in to motion for retaliation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grattan_massacre.htm (476 words)

	Grattan, Henry - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Grattan, Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ireland was then suffering from the loss of markets as a result of Britain's war against the American colonists, and also from trade restrictions dating back to the reign of William III; Grattan succeeded in having all the restriction acts repealed in 1779.
		Though Grattan retired from Parliament in 1797, he returned to take his seat for Wicklow in the final session of the Irish Parliament, when he unsuccessfully opposed the Union Bill.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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	Crazy Horse - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Crazy Horse was recognized among his own people as a visionary leader committed to preserving the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life and leading his people into a war against the take-over of their lands by the 'White Man'.
		Crazy Horse was a 6 year old boy and witness of the Grattan Massacre when he had vision of himself becoming a warrior.
		On January 8, 1877, his warriors fought their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana and on May 8 of that year he realized that his people were weakened by cold and hunger and he surrendered to United States troops in Nebraska.
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	History in Review - Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War 1854-1856, by R. Eli Paul
		Grattan's 'blunder' stemmed from his attempt to enter a Brulé Camp located near Fort Laramie to arrest a Lakota man. This man had been accused of stealing a lost cow that reportedly had belonged to a member of a Mormon wagon train.
		Grattan met with the group's chief, Conquering Bear and when negotiations did not go satisfactorily, one of Grattan's men shot Chief Conquering Bear in the back - and the melee was on.
		Although this incident was clearly the fault of Grattan and his men, General William S. Harney was ordered to go to what was then the Nebraska Territory, with the expressed purpose of seeking revenge for the Grattan Massacre.
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	Indian Battles
		Despite the many eyewitness reports that Lieutenant Grattan had foolishly threatened the Sioux and practically forced them to attack, the incident quickly gained infamy around the nation as the "Grattan Massacre." Americans demanded swift vengeance, and the army turned to the celebrated Indian fighter, General William Harney, to lead a punitive attack against the Sioux.
		However, the public outrage over the massacre did derail the growing movement to transfer control of Indian affairs from the Department of Interior to the War Department--President Ulysses S. Grant decreed that henceforth all Indian agents would be civilians rather than soldiers.
		The massacre of Custer and his 7th Cavalry outraged many Americans and only confirmed the image of the bloodthirsty Indians in their minds, and the government became more determined to destroy or tame the hostile Indians.
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	Excerpt from the War of the Morman Cow - Grattan Massacre of 1854 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Grattan left Bat and came to camp with Wyuse, demanding the cow killer.
		Grattan wanted to put Straight Foretop in the iron house and demanded that Conquering Bear make the Minneconjou come.
		The last thing that was said by Wyuse caused Grattan to roar in defiance, his freckled face glowing red.
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	Phil Konstantin's 2003 Vacation: Grattan Battlefield, Wyoming, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 'The Great Smoke', Laramie ...
		Some say Grattan was a hot-head with something to prove, other say he was just inexperienced and got in over his head.
		Grattan brashly went to Conquering Bear’s Brule Sioux camp near Ash Hollow and demanded the Indian who shot the cow.
		Grattan made numerous threats to the Sioux, but they would not hand over High Forehead.
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	Fort Tours \| Fort Laramie
		Lieutenant Grattan came into the Sioux village with thirty-one men and an interpreter named Wyuse, who had not helped matters by putting an insulting spin on Conquering Bear's dignified remarks to Lieutenant Fleming.
		High Forehead stood in plain sight but was not disposed to be arrested, whereupon Lieutenant Grattan shot off his cannon, missing most of the village but mortally wounding Conquering Bear, the man who had been, throughout, the voice of moderation and good sense.
		High Forehead shot Lieutenant Grattan and the thirty-one soldiers were immediately massacred, along with Wyuse, who was dealt with with extreme prejudice by the outraged Sioux.
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	Pre-Civil War life on the Western Frontier
		The story, which culminates in what is called the Grattan Massacre, unfolds from dual viewpoints, the Brulé Sioux and the Cheyenne on the one hand, the Army and the Westward-headed pioneers on the other.
		Set in 1855, this book details the Army's retaliation for the Grattan Massacre in a slaughter of its own, a carefully planned attack on an encampment of unsuspecting Sioux.
		Considerable attention is given to life among four of the more prominent Plains tribes: the Arapahos, the Brulé Sioux, the Cheyenne and the Pawnee, with particular emphasis on a rarely mentioned Pawnee ceremony in which a young girl is sacrificed to the god called Morning Star.
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	Lakota
		In Nebraska on September 3, 1855, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenged the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children.
		Seven years later on November 5, 1862 also in Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux were found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and were sentenced to hang.
		The Lakota were defeated decisively by the U.S. Army subsequently, culminating, fourteen years later, in the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
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		The author did not talk with any of the relatives of the people who were massacred that day by General Harney (I know this for a fact, as I live and work with the descendants of Little Thunder).
		Eli Paul is well-qualified to provide readers with a thorough account of what he terms the First Sioux War as he has written a biography of Red Clooud,edited the Nebraska Indian Wars Reader and contributed to a pictorial history of the Wounded Knee/Pine Ridge campaign of 1890.
		Sparked by the 1854 Grattan Massacre in which young Lt. John Grattan lost his life and the lives of most of his men after unwisely provoking Conquering Bear's Sioux encampment near Fort Laramie, this book records the Grattan incident in detail and then goes on to trace the response of the United States Army.
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	Fort McPherson National Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The cemetery has a marble monument erected in memory of Lt. John Lawrence Grattan and 28 of his men who were killed in the Grattan Massacre on August 19, 1854.
		The Grattan Massacre took place near Fort Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 19, 1854, during negotiations with Sioux Indians.
		Grattan is buried at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/ftmcpherson.htm (2255 words)

	Mormon Trail News Archive
		The so-called "Grattan Massacre," which caused a great deal of subsequent controversy and became the first link in a bad chain of events, started over a cow.
		When news of the Grattan Massacre reached the War Department, plans were immediately formulated to punish the Sioux.
		Harney was recalled from Paris and ordered to Fort Kearny, where he assembled a command consisting of elements of his own 2nd Dragoons, as well as units from the 6th and 10th Infantry and the 4th Artillery Regiments.
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	Glyph 104: 1854-55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After the Mormons complained, a punitive expedition of the 6th infantry was sent out unter Lt. John L. Grattan.
		Grattan demanded Chief Conquering Bear surrender the guilty parties.
		Grattan ordered the soldiers to fire, and Conquering Bear was killed.
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	Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lieutenant Hugh B. Fleming, then in charge, sent 2nd Lt. John L. Grattan and 29 men of the 6th Infantry, and Lucien Auguste, an interpreter, to receive the supposed cow thief and bring him into the fort for punishment.
		When Grattan's detachment reached the camp, things quickly fell apart, and someone, either a soldier, Auguste or a warrior, fired a shot.
		When the fight ended, Grattan, Auguste and all the soldiers lay dead, along with an unknown number of Indians.
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	texas chainsaw massacre in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Coushatta massacre 1874, which claimed the lives of 26 people, was part of a larger attempt on the part...
		The Matewan massacre was the stand off that resulted from the attempt of coal miner s to unionize in Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
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	Encyclopedia: Crazy Horse
		It is believed that Crazy Horse was in the BrulÃ© camp when it was attacked by U.S. troops during the Grattan Massacre.
		After witnessing the death of Sioux leader, Conquering Bear, Crazy Horse wandered alone into the lake country of the Sand Hills, where he had the vision that would guide him for the rest of his life.
		The Battle of the Little Bighorn â€” which is also called Custers Last Stand and Custer Massacre and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass â€” was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United...
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	Historical Wyoming Tidbits - Human History (Part 2)
		A classic example is the Grattan battle of August 19, 1854, west of Torrington.
		Through a drunk interpreter who harbored his own grudge against the Sioux, Grattan demanded that the butchers be handed over.
		The interpreter added his own insults to Grattan’s demands and when the affronted Sioux refused to cooperate, Grattan's men opened fire.
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	6th U.S. Inf. History
		This was the last seen of Grattan and his men alive, and the facts of the massacre as related have been gathered from statements of the Indians.
		Thus Grattan and his men were avenged by their comrades of the Sixth.
		General Clarke was relieved from the command of the Department of the West July 1, 1856, and the headquarters of the regiment moved to Jefferson Barracks.
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	Native American Clensing
		Perhaps the most important confrontation with the native tribes occurred near Ft. Laramie in 1854, and became known as the Grattan Massacre.
		Grattan and 28 men then left Fort Laramie with a single objective- punish the Sioux.
		The Sioux recognized their error and offered a horse in return for the cow, but Grattan was uninterested.
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	Indians, Cowboys and Farmers: 1865-1910 (The Drama of American History): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For example, in describing the sequence of events that led to the Grattan Massacre, there is no mention of date, location, or names of the people involved.
		In the wake of the decimation of the buffalo herds there were several key encounters between the Indians and the cavalry troops: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
		What the White Man did once the Indians were removed as obstacles is covered in the next three chapters: (3) The Legendary American Cowboy covers the "Cattle Kingdom" that arose as the buffalo disappeared and the cities of the East needed meat for their booming populations.
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	This Day In History ...
		Massacre with a brutal attack on a Sioux village in
		: "1855 U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre : On this day in 1885, General William Harney and : 700 soldiers take revenge for the Grattan : Massacre with a brutal attack on a Sioux village in : Nebraska that left 100 men, women, and children : dead.
		But for the rest of : his life the general was plagued with the nickname : of "Squaw Killer Harney," while the unfortunate : pattern of revenge and punishment his attack : began would only grow more vicious on both sides : of the conflict.
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	History in Review - The U. S. History Reading Room
		This is a military history text that examines the military commanders and their actions in regard to the Grattan Massacre and the Battle of Blue Water Creek.
		Following the massacre of their family by Indians, Olive and Mary Ann Oatman where taken into captivity and forced to live as slaves.
		A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Oatman massacre, which provides a detailed, historical overview of the events leading up to the massacre, the captivity of Olive and Mary Ann Oatman, and the aftermath of Olive's rescue.
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