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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Wylie, Paul R., 1936-     Subjects     Baker, Eugene M.     Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870.     Massacres -- Montana -- History -- 19th century.     Piegan Indians -- Wars.     Piegan Indians -- Government relations.     Indians of North America -- Wars -- Montana.     Indians, Treatment of -- Montana -- History.     Montana -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wylie, Paul R., 1936-       by title:      Blood on the Marias ...       by call number:      978.602 W983b     Search the Web     Wylie, Paul R., 1936-     Baker, Eugene M.     Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870.     Massacres -- Montana -- History -- 19th century.     Piegan Indians -- Wars.     Piegan Indians -- Government relations.     Indians of North America -- Wars -- Montana.     Indians, Treatment of -- Montana -- History.     Montana -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

Blood on the Marias : the Baker Massacre / Paul R. Wylie. by Wylie, Paul R., 1936- University of Oklahoma Press, [2016] Call #: 978.602 W983b Subjects Baker, Eugene M.   Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870.   Massacres -- Montana -- History -- 19th century.   Piegan Indians -- Wars.   Piegan Indians -- Government relations.   Indians of North America -- Wars -- Montana.   Indians, Treatment of -- Montana -- History.   Montana -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780806151571 (hc.) Alternate title:  Baker Massacre Description:  xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Lewis and Clark meet the Piegan Indians -- Protection for the traders, death to the trappers -- The government comes with the treaties -- Montana's first Indian War: General Sherman vs. General Megher -- Trouble back east: the War Department vs. the Interior Department -- Making a case against the Piegans -- Tell Baker to strike them hard -- Massacre -- The aftermath -- A general dictates the history and a false priest brokers the peace -- The spoils of war -- Drunk again. Summary:  "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. The author 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"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 978.602 W983b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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