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American Indian Wars: The United States Army killed about 200 Piegan Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in the Marias Massacre.
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Piegan Blackfeet
Native American tribe
The Piegan are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They are the largest of three Blackfeet-speaking groups that make up the Blackfeet Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai are the others. The Piegan dominated much of the northern Great Plains during…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Marias Massacre
January 1870 killing of Native Americans by the U.S. Army in Montana
The Marias Massacre was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Native peoples committed by United States Army forces under Major Eugene Mortimer Baker as part of the Indian Wars. The massacre occurred on January 23, 1870, in Montana Territory. Approximately 200 Native people were…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)