This week is part 2 of topics related to the novel, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones. We'll be talking about the Bear Creek or Marias Massacre that occurred in January of 1870 in Montana, in which a Blackfeet camp (that had been suffering from a smallpox outbreak & that had most of their able-bodied men out on a hunt) was brutally attacked by the US army. Over 200 people were killed, mostly the elderly, women, and children. It was one of the worst massacres of indigenous peoples by the US government, but one of the least known. We'll discuss the what had led up to this event & the aftermath. We'll also talk about some tangentially related current events, like the plaque being removed from Gus Doane's sculpture explaining how he was involved in the Marias Massacre.

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SOURCES:

-Thumbnail photo: Glenbow Museum and Archives, Alberta, Canada NA-1463-4

-The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

- The Piikuni and the U.S. Army’s Piegan Expedition:  https://tinyurl.com/e2wce834

-American Indian Wars: Timeline: https://tinyurl.com/ypt5c2ys

-Life in the land: blackfeet nation-amskapi’piikani: https://tinyurl.com/34wxb6c3

-witnesses to carnage: https://www.dickshovel.com/parts2.html

-After Trump order, Teton park removes sign about explorer who massacred Native Americans: https://tinyurl.com/3j64u28j

-Save Our Signs project: https://tinyurl.com/46uwuve3

-Yellowstone’s Mount Doane name changes to First Peoples Mountain; Action taken to remove offensive name from America’s first national park: https://tinyurl.com/3xd3bd6j