Cypress Hills massacre

Quando

2 de jun. de 1873

Tipo

Massacre

Mortes

24

Coordenadas

49.55° N, 109.89° W

Description

1873 shootout between North American fur traders and indigenous Canadians

1873 shootout between North American fur traders and indigenous Canadians

The Cypress Hills Massacre occurred on June 1, 1873, near Battle Creek in the Cypress Hills region of Canada's North-West Territories. It involved a group of American bison hunters, American wolf hunters or "wolfers", American and Canadian whisky traders, Métis cargo haulers or "freighters", and a camp of Assiniboine people. Thirteen or more Assiniboine warriors and one wolfer died in the conflict.

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