Thread by @brettachapman

Today is the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. If anyone has heard of one massacre of Native Americans, its this because it happened last. Though last, it was not the worst nor was it rare. Read this thread for just a small selection of similar massacres few know of

In 1863, American soldiers in Lincoln's Union Army brutally murdered over 400 Shoshone men, women, and children during the Civil War at the Bear River Massacre—the single greatest loss of Native American lives in U.S. history

In 1864, soldiers in Lincoln's Union Army found a village of 500 Cheyenne and Arapahos during the Civil War who believed they were under U.S. protection by treaty. Instead, the Army slaughtered over 200—mainly women, children and the elderly—at the Sand Creek Massacre

In 1879, American soldiers under the command of a “distinguished” Union Civil War veteran slaughtered over 200 Piikáni as they slept in the 1870 Marias Massacre

The 1871 Camp Grant Massacre was a white supremacist attack on Native Americans in which 144 Apaches were brutally murdered in cold blood by American settlers in Arizona. The murderers targeted women and children. 100 of the killers were brought to trial. All were acquitted