And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:06:16 -0500 (EST) >From: "Jordan S. Dill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Baker Massacre Anniversary > > A forwarded message: > >"Greetings, Friends.... > >"Jordan Dill has posted "Notes on an Obscure Massacre" on today's 129th >anniversary of the Baker (Marias) Massacre of Jan. 23rd, 1870. The >Internet address is <http://www.dickshovel.com/parts4.html>. This is >actually my third attempt, with the help of my partner Jack Hayne, to >commemorate a tragedy which seems fated to remain in historical obscurity. >Not if we can help it, though! > >"Stan Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >EXCERPT "The best we can do with catastrophes ... is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts." Norman Maclean, 1992. On January 23rd, 1870, near today's town of Shelby, Montana, Major Eugene Baker commanded six companies of U.S. soldiers who killed most of the defenseless women, children, and old people in the winter village of Heavy Runner, a friendly Piegan chief. When Heavy Runner approached the lines of edgy Army shooters on bluffs above his lodges, waving his safe-conduct certificate, he was shot dead in his tracks by a recently-hired civilian scout. Unstoppable general carnage followed. Lieutenant Gus Doane tallied the heaped corpses and supervised the incineration of the bodies and everything else in the camp. He called it "the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops." The Chicago Tribune reported at the time that government officials regarded the Baker Massacre as "the most disgraceful butchery in the annals of our dealings with the Indian." >-- > ***Jordan S. Dill*** > <http://www.dickshovel.com/> > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
