People from the nearest communities visited the scene of the battle over the following days. Royal Buck wrote to the readers of Nebraska City News that "It was a massacre and nothing more, and near 100 victims are lying on the ground and full two thirds are squaws and pappooses [small Indian children]"
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It perturbs the Lame Cherry in these eastern liberals, whether from Europe or America who in ignorance provide these asinine definitions of things they have no comprehension of inception of. The subject of this is the Republican River Country in southwest Nebraska where the largest gang rape in US history took place.
Yet even in that, the above photo is called Massacre Canyon. That draw is not a canyon. It is hype. Even in Nebraska it would be called a "cut" or a "run". Canyons are big things and there are not any canyons until one is in the Rocky Mountain system.
What took place at Massacre Run was the Sioux surprised a hunting party of Pawnee and mass murdered them for an afternoon as they did the Custer Command at the Little Big Horn.
The accounts on White Wiki, puzzle over the Nebraskans who ventured to the area and wondered why the women had been stripped naked.
The answer is the "women" this would be female children too, had been stripped and mass raped.
The victims, who were mostly women and children, suffered mutilation and some were set on fire.
For one reason or another, a number of the dead women lay naked.
We know who the principle leaders were in this on both sides. I will meet you on the other side.
Principal chiefs at the battle were:
- Pawnee: Sky Chief, Sun Chief, Fighting Bear, Ruling His Son.
- Sioux: Spotted Tail (Brulé chief) (unclear, Little Wound (Oglala chief), Two Strike (Brulé chief). Chief Charging Bear (John Grass, Sihasapa
One can discern that the Pawnee leader Ruling His Son is quite an old man. For the record, that is what the Sioux came upon, a group of 700 old men, women and children butchering buffalo.
Ruling His Son
John W. Williamson of the Genoa Agency, who accompanied the hunting party, "On the 2d [in fact the 3d ] day of July, 1873, the Indians, to the number of 700, left Genoa for the hunting grounds. Of this number 350 were men, the balance women and children."
"A census taken at the Pawnee Agency in September, according [to] Agent Burgess. . ." (see "Massacre Canyon Monument" article in External Links section) found that "71 Pawnee warriors were killed, and 102 women and children killed", the victims brutally mutilated and scalped and others even set on fire
On the contrary the Sioux had been out hunting west of Massacre Run, and their numbers were large, because they had been involved in genocide against most of the tribes whose lands they are taking from the Ree, Mandan, Arikaree, Gros Ventre and Pawnee.
Their numbers were 1000 viable soldiers. Below is a photo of one of their leaders, John Grass. I desire you to take special note of the head dress as it means something. Each feather is an eagle feather and it records counting coup. One can see a number of the feathers is tipped with colour. That also had meaning, usually some barbaric act of murder.
In the head dress below there are around 33 feathers representing 33 murders.
This was a way of life for terrorist Indians and something must be remembered in this, which was recorded by Colonel Richard Irving Doge in his My Life With the Wild Indians. It made zero sense in bravery, but when an Indian counted coup, it did not matter if they chopped up the baby of an enemy or a warrior. Each body was coup. So in the head dress below, which is from John Grass who took part in this slaughter and rape, in knowing so many children died, it is likely that some of those feathers were from babies.
John Grass
During the day around 1000 warriors set off for the Pawnee to make a joint, quick attack and prevent the enemy from striking first
The Pawnee were not going to strike the Sioux first. Several groups of White Plainsman had come to the Pawnee camp and their Indian Agent explaining the huge number of Sioux to the West. They were discounted and the Pawnee continued on their harvest of the Buffalo.
The Pawnee were caught and disaster followed. The old leaders were caught away from their horses and were surrounded and butchered by the Sioux. Sioux in sign means Slash Across the Throat, as that is how they killed in cutting heads off the enemy.
What followed was a mass rape by 1000 Sioux men on women and young girls. In what would happen 3 years later in 1876 to the Custer command, the Pawnee were mutilated, scalped and the ones caught alive "had the fire put to them".
Fire meant kindling a fire at the feet or making a fire on the chest or stomach of the person and torturing them in this manner. This was always after though, the Sioux would cut the tendons of their victim and pull them out, which indeed did inflict the utmost pain.
Hopefully there is enough humanity in you that you are cringing at all of this. Words like mutilated do not describe effectively what was done by Indian terrorists, anymore than outrage, described a gang rape by dozens or hundreds of crazed savages on women and girls.
It was though as Dodge explained and this blog has noted, in, the Indian had no conception of good or bad. "Bad" to an Indian was not the savage act, bad was being caught by the chief or Whites and punished for the act.
As a result of this Sioux terrorism, the federal government moved to keep all Indians on reservations and
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