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This archives the list of Indian massacres removed from "List of Massacres in the United States"

Name Date Location State Deaths Notes
Crow Creek massacre 1325 - approximately area now known as Chamberlain South Dakota 486 between prehistoric Indian groups
Acoma Massacre 1599 Jan 22-24 Acoma Pueblo New Mexico 300 - approximately Indians killed by Spanish conquistadores
Indian massacre of 1622 1622 Mar 22 Colony of Virginia Virginia 347 a quarter of the English population of Jamestown, killed by Powhatan Indians.
Mystic massacre 1637 May 26 Near the Mystic River in present-day Connecticut Connecticut 400-700 Puritan killings of Native American women and children.[1]
Pavonia massacre 1643 Feb 25 Paulus Hook, New Jersey New Jersey 120 including women and children
Schenectady massacre 1690 Feb 8 Schenectady New York 60 27 survivors carried to captivity. Response to Lachine massacre in Canada.[2]
Apalachee massacre 1704 Jan 25–26 (near Tallahassee) Florida 247 A series of brutal raids by English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies against a largely pacific population of Apalachee Indians in northern Spanish Florida that took place during Queen Anne's War in 1704.[3]
Draper's Meadow massacre 1755 Jul 8 Draper's Meadow, Virginia Virginia 5 settlers killed by Shawnee Indians.
Conestoga Massacre 1763-1764 near Lancaster Pennsylvania 20 Susquehannock killed by Scots-Irish band
Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre 1764 Jul 26 Franklin County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 11 American Indians attacked a schoolhouse, killing and scalping 10 children and a teacher
Wyoming Massacre 1778 Jul 3 Wyoming Pennsylvania 343 led to Cherry Valley massacre
Gnadenhutten massacre 1782 Mar 8 Gnadenhutten Ohio 96 Christian Lenape (Delaware) killed by colonial American militia from Pennsylvania at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhütten, Ohio.
Fort Dearborn Massacre 1812 Aug 15 Chicago Illinois 42 51 survivors were taken captive[4]
Fort Mims massacre 1813 Aug 30 near Bay Minette Alabama 517 After capturing the fort, Indians killed almost all of the remaining Lower Creek, white settlers, and militia.[5]
Spafford Farm massacre 1832 Jun 14 Near present day South Wayne Wisconsin 5 five men were attacked by a Kickapoo war party, four whites and one Indian died, during Black Hawk War
St. Vrain massacre 1832 May 24 Near present day Pearl City Illinois 4 killed while delivering dispatches during Black Hawk War[6]
Cutthroat Gap Massacre 1833 Kiowa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 150 Osage tribe attacked a Kiowa encampment west of the Wichita Mountains in southwest Oklahoma
Bloody Island massacre 1850 May 15 Bo-no-po-ti, Clear Lake, Lake County California 60-400 Pomo Indians, mostly women and children, killed by the U.S. Cavalry. Site is California Registered Historical Landmark #427.
Yontoket massacre 1853 Yontocket California 450 Tolowa Indians killed during prayer ceremony by company of volunteers.[7]
Achulet massacre 1854 near Lake Earl California 65 Tolowa Indian village of Achulet wiped out at dawn.[7]
Bridge Gulch Massacre 1852 Apr 23 Trinity County California 150 Wintu Indians killed by sheriff and posse at dawn.[7]
Kelvin Grade massacre 1889 Nov 2 near Globe, Arizona Territory Arizona 2 1 wounded by escaping Indian prisoners during transport. Perpetrators all captured except Apache Kid.[8]
Dade Massacre 1835 Dec 28 Central Florida Florida 110 U.S. Army forces ambushed by Seminole fighters.[9]
Mowry massacres 1863 - 1865 Mowry, Arizona Territory Arizona [10]
Camp Grant massacre 1871 Apr 30 Camp Grant, Arizona Territory Arizona 144 1 survivor at scene and 29 children sold to slavery. All but eight of the dead were Apache women or children.[11]
Wickenburg massacre 1871 Nov 5 Wickenburg, Arizona Territory Arizona 6 2 wounded survivors of a stagecoach ambushed by Indians.[12]
Fort Parker massacre 1836 May 19 near Groesbeck Texas 5 5 captured by Comanche, including Cynthia Ann Parker
Killough massacre 1838 Octr 5 near Larissa Texas 6 12 settlers captured by Cherokee
Sand Creek massacre 1864 Nov 29 Kiowa County Colorado 70–163 [13]
Pauma massacre 1846 Dec Escondido California 11 Californios killed by Indians . Led to Temecula massacre.[14]
Temecula massacre 1846 Dec Temecula California 33-40 retaliation for Pauma massacre.[14]
Indian Island massacre 1860 Feb 26 - 1860 Mar 3 Indian Island, Eureka, California, Rio Dell, California, and near Hydesville, California California 200-250 Wiyot village of Tulawat wiped out at dawn. Victims mostly women, children and elders, written about by Bret Harte at local newspaper. Other villages massacred within two days. The main site is National Register of Historic Places in the United States #66000208.[15]
Spirit Lake Massacre 1857 Mar 8–12 various settlements 24 Iowa 4 taken captive in last Native American attack on settlers in Iowa.[16]
Kidder massacre 1867 Jun 29 near Goodland Kansas 12 killed included United States Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Sherman County, Kansas, near Goodland, by a Sioux and Cheyenne war party. General Custer was an after-the-fact witness at the scene.[17][18]
Marias Massacre 1870 Jan 23 Montana, along the Marias River Montana 217 Indians killed by U.S. Army
Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Jun 26 Big Horn County Montana 268 55 injured by Indians. The victims were all part of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry with a total force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer
Gallinas Massacre 1861 Sep 2 Gallinas Mountains, Confederate Arizona (present day Lincoln County) New Mexico 4 Confederate soldiers killed by Chiricahua Apache warriors.[19]
Washita Massacre 1868 Nov 27 Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 13-150 13 wounded Cheyenneby Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked a winter camp on the Washita River.[20][21]
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 Dec 29 Wounded Knee Creek South Dakota 150 51 wounded, although estimates placed the dead as many as 300 killed by 7th Cavalry after disarmament.
Bear River Massacre 1863 Jan 29 Southeastern Washington Territory (Present-day Franklin County) Idaho 246 164 wounded or captured when United States Army attacked Shoshone gathered at the confluence of the Bear River.[22]
Grattan massacre 1854 Aug 19 Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory (in present-day Goshen County) Wyoming 31 US Army personnel killed by Lakota Sioux warriors during First Sioux War
  1. ^ The Society of Colonial Wars: 1637 - The Pequot War, accessdate 26 December 2012
  2. ^ Why Schenectady was destroyed in 1690. A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Schenectady, 3 May 1897, accessdate 6 January 2013.
  3. ^ Hoffman, Paul E. (2002). Florida's Frontiers. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34019-1. OCLC 248260149.
  4. ^ Johnson, Geoffrey (2009). "The True Story of the Deadly Encounter at Fort Dearborn". Chicago Magazine. 58 (12): 86–89. Retrieved 2011-12-28. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Owsley, Jr., Frank L. "The Fort Mims Massacre," Alabama Review 1971 24(3): 192-204
  6. ^ Armstrong, Perry A. The Sauks and the Black Hawk War, (Google Books), H.W. Rokker, 1887, pp. 415-416. accessdate 27 December 2012
  7. ^ a b c Norton, Jack (1979). Genocide in Northwestern California: When Our Worlds Cried. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press. pp. 56–57. B0006CYZSK.
  8. ^ Hayes, Jess G. Apache Vengeance: The true story of Apache Kid. (1954). University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico, ISBN OCLC 834291
  9. ^ Meltzer, Milton. 2004. Hunted Like A Wolf. Pineapple Press. p.89
  10. ^ Browne, R. John, Adventures in the Apache County: a tour through Arizona and Sonora with notes on the silver regions of Nevada. 1869. New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers.
  11. ^ Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip, Western Apache Oral Histories and Traditions of the Camp Grant Massacre. The American Indian Quarterly - Volume 27, Number 3&4, Summer/Fall 2003, pp. 639-666., accessdate 26 December 2012
  12. ^ "The Late Frederick W. Loring" (PDF). New York Times. 24 November 1871. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  13. ^ Smiley, Brenda "Sand Creek Massacre", Archeology magazine. Archaeological Institute of America. accessdate 26 December 2012.
  14. ^ a b Horace Parker The Historic Valley of Temecula. The Temecula Massacre 24 pages, Paisano Press (1971), 286593
  15. ^ Rohde, Jerry (25 February 2010). "Genocide and Extortion: 150 years later, the hidden motive behind the Indian Island Massacre". North Coast Journal. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  16. ^ Gardner-Sharp, Abbie History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner, Des Moines: Iowa Printing, 1885 (reprinted 1892, 1910), accessdate 28 December 2012
  17. ^ "Kidder Massacre: list of the fallen", Goodland, Kansas Website, accessdate 28 December 2012.
  18. ^ "Kidder Massacre", photo of historic marker, Garry Owen Website, accessdate 28 December 2012.
  19. ^ Thompson, Jerry Don, Colonel John Robert Baylor: Texas Indian Fighter and Confederate Soldier. Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1971.
  20. ^ Greene, Jerome A., Washita, The Southern Cheyenne and the U.S. Army. Campaigns and Commanders Series, Vol. 3., 2004 Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3551-4.
  21. ^ Grinnell, George Bird. "The Battle of the Washita, 1868." pp. 37–49 in Richard Ellis, ed., The Western American Indian: Case Studies in Tribal History. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. ISBN 0-8032-0804-9.
  22. ^ Hart, Newell, The Bear River Massacre. Cache Valley Newsletter Publishing Company, Preston, Idaho. 1982. ISBN 0-941462-01-3
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