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This week in 1871, an Arizona vigilante group massacred a camp of sleeping Apache Native Americans, who were seeking peace w/ the US. The group raped, killed & mutilated 144 ppl—almost all women & children—w/ another 29 children captured & sold into slavery. #CampGrantMassacre 
The slaughter was systematic, they used war clubs to kill those asleep in their wikiups & rifles fire from the hills above to shoot down those trying to flee the camp below. At the time of the attack, many of the men were off hunting game for an upcoming celebration.
In 1871 bands of around 500 Apache came into Camp Grant to make peace. The bands had been attacked and harassed by the US Army since the end of the Civil War in 1865 & they were on the verge of starvation.
