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  Marias Massacre@Everything2.com
Hand-picked by Sheridan to lead the "expedition" was Major Eugene Baker, whose career, despite having ranked 12th in his class at West Point and a having good record in the Civil War, had already been in decline largely due to his alcoholism (he'd die fifteen years later of cirrhosis at age 48).
Soldiers partaking in the massacre swore that he was drunk at the time—whether that had much effect on the what happened is debatable.
After the massacre, the soldiers set out after the intended camp (leaving behind a "disposal" unit to count bodies and burn them on a huge pyre).
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  Indian massacres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the long history of the English colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe mass killings of European-Americans ("whites") by Native Americans ("Indians"), and, less frequently, mass killings of American Indians by whites.
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.
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 Marias Massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Marias Massacre is a little-known massacre that took place in (A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border) Montana during the late- (additional info and facts about 19th century) 19th century (additional info and facts about Indian Wars) Indian Wars.
Relations between the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the (A member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains) Blackfoot, (The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart) Blood, and (additional info and facts about Piegan) Piegan tribes) and whites had been largely hostile for years.
As the men of the camp were mostly out hunting, the raid was a massacre of mostly women and children.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Marias_Massacre.htm   (381 words)

  
 Marias River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Marias River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 210 mi (338 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana.
The river was explored in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark expedition, who mistook it for the main branch of the Missouri until their subsequent discovery of the Great Falls of the Missouri near Great Falls, Montana.
The river was the scene of the 1870 Marias Massacre.
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 Encyclopedia: Sand-Creek-Massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Sand Creek Massacre was an infamous incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864 when Colorado Militia troops in the Colorado Territory massacred an undefended village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped on the territory's eastern plains.
In response to numerous depredations by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, especially the Hungate massacre and the public display in Denver of the mutilated vitims, Governor John Evans received authorization from the War Department in Washington for the establishment of the Third Colorado Cavalry.
The Sand Creek Massacre is the subject of the 1970 movie Soldier Blue, and the massacre in Little Big Man is also based on it.
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 Marias massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Marias massacre is a little-known massacre that took place in Montana during the late-19th century Indian Wars.
The killing inflamed the public, which caused General Philip Sheridan to send out a band of cavalry led by Major Eugene Baker to track down and punish the offending party.
Many blamed Major Baker, a known alcoholic, for the massacre and failure to capture Mountain Chief's men.
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 Massacres: Selected Links to Resources
The Daejon Massacre - At the outbreak of war in 1950, one of the first acts of the Rhee regime was to order the execution of political prisoners, whose deaths were in due course attributed to atrocities by the incoming northern forces.
Masan villagers claim GIs committed another massacre - A group of villagers in Kokan-ri in Masan, some 400 km south of Seoul, alleged Monday that American soldiers shot to death more than 80 residents who were hiding in a house of ancestral worship on the outskirts of the village on Aug. 11, 1950.
Typical of their massacre in the early period of their aggression on Korea was their killing of over 350 guiltless people after their reinvasion of Kwang-hwa Island in 1871.
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 Dead Indians, Live Indians, etc...
The sand creek massacre is an instance where a military leader, Chivington, needed a battle to mark his troop with heroism.
Until the massacre, the regimond had not "shed blood" and was receiving flack from Denver citizens.
Eighth, the Caribs were not simply worked to death, contemporary Spanish records support both massacre and pathenogens as accounting for the bulk of the populations of several Caribian islands, along with group suicide.
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 Indian Battles
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.
Whatever the motives, the army's massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the final major confrontation in America's deadly war against the Plains Indians.
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 US 89 The Heritage Highway Travel on US89
Madsen was the first recognized historian to expose what had long been portrayed as a valiant battle by the U.S. Army was in fact an attempt at genocide, a lopsided massacre bent on exterminating 250-400 Shoshoni under the command of a colonel who wanted to make a name for himself.
Schindler's interest in the Bear River massacre stemmed from his research on Orrin Porter Rockwell, the pioneer Mormon convert, gunslinger and accused murderer who guided Connor's troops to the Shoshoni encampment near Preston.
The land where the bodies of slain Indians -- including infants whose heads were clubbed as they suckled from their mothers -- were left unburied, is a hodgepodge of private ownership, where cattle graze and mobile homes squat.
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 Marias Massacre
The Marias Massacre is a now little-known massacre that took place in Montana during the late- 19th century Indian Wars between the UnitedStates government and the American Indians.
As the menof the camp were mostly out hunting, the raid was a massacre, killing around 200 women and children.
Responsibility for the massacre and failure to capture Mountain Chief's men was placed by many on Major Baker's well-known alcoholism, though in the subsequent controversy General Sheridan expressed hisconfidence in Baker's leadership, and managed to prevent an official investigation into the incident.
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 The Marias Massacre
The Marias Massacre is a little-known one-sided battle that took place in Montana on January 23, 1870.
Though receiving little attention in history, the massacre, which killed some 200 Piegan Indians, mostly women and children, was described by one company commander as “the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops.”
Though the incident was every bit as significant as many others, such as the Bear River, Sand Creek and Washita Massacres, history has overlooked this incident, with little mention of the event in the books and journals of the past.
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 Marias River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It flows east, through Lake Elwell, formed by the Tiber Dam, then southeast, receiving the (additional info and facts about Teton River) Teton River at (additional info and facts about Loma) Loma, 2 mi.
The river was named by (United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)) Meriwether Lewis after his cousin, Maria Wood.
The river was the scene of the 1870 (additional info and facts about Marias Massacre) Marias Massacre.
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 Marias River   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Marias River is a tributary of the MissouriRiver, approximately 210 mi (338 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana.
It is formed in the BlackfeetIndian Reservation in Glacier County, innorthwestern Montana, by the confluence of the Cut Bank Creek and the Two Medicine River.
The river was explored in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark expedition, who mistook it for the main branch of the Missouri until theirsubsequent discovery of the Great Falls of the Missouri near Great Falls, Montana.
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 Marias River Massacre Site   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They could have seen the hundreds of lives flow around them, and they could have seen all the courage and hopes of a people.
At a bend in the Marias River is a quiet place where the wind never howls
On the Marias bend, the landscape melts away from us into the faded white of the mist until finally the sun melts the fog slowly way and an empty sea of grass appears.
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 carnage...
We were obliged to camp in a ravine, on the Dry Fork of the Marias, till the night of the 22nd, when we broke camp and marched to the Marias River, arriving there on the morning of the 23rd....
Two years after the Marias Massacre, he was too drunk to command and his troops were almost wiped out at Pryor's Creek, Montana, when attacked by several hundred Sioux.
She declared herself to be a survivor of the massacre and said that she had "a personal knowledge of the occasion." Wording has been changed from third- to first-person.
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