Cutthroat Gap Massacre

When

1833

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

150

Coordinates

34.84° N, 98.83° W

Description

indigenous massacre

1833 indigenous massacre in Oklahoma, US

The Cutthroat Gap massacre occurred in 1833, "The Year the Stars Fell" in Oklahoma. A group of Osage warriors charged into a Kiowa camp and brutally slaughtered the women, children and elderly there. Most of the warriors of this group of Kiowas, headed by Chief A'date or "Island Man" had left to raid a band of Utes or had gone bison hunting.

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