Meeker Massacre, or Meeker Incident, White River War, Ute War, or the Ute Campaign), took place on September 29, 1879 in Colorado. Members of a band of...
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by treaty. The town of Meeker, Colorado and Mount Meeker in Rocky Mountain National Park are named for him. Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Euclid, Ohio...
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Ouray (Ute leader) (section Meeker Massacre)
sought to make treaties with settlers and the government. Following the Meeker Massacre (White River War) of 1879, he traveled in 1880 to Washington, D.C....
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white citizens by White River Ute Indians in the 1879 Meeker Incident, also known as the Meeker Massacre. The site of the uprising, the former White River...
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Sapiah (section Meeker Massacre)
1870. White River Utes killed Nathan Meeker and his soldiers at the White River Agency during the Meeker Massacre (September 29, 1879). Sapiah led a group...
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Chipeta (section Meeker massacre)
captives. One of the captives was Josephine Meeker, adult daughter of the late Indian agent Nathan Meeker. The captives were brought to Chipeta and Ouray's...
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Colorado, Meeker died young at age 25 of a pulmonary infection. Born in Ohio, Josephine Meeker was the youngest of the five children of Nathan Cook Meeker and...
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stroke in 1980, Meeker was forced to retire from acting, and died eight years later of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. Meeker was born Ralph...
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Meeker may refer to: Camp Meeker, California Meeker, Colorado Meeker, Louisiana Meeker, Ohio Meeker, Oklahoma Meeker, West Virginia Meeker, Wisconsin Meeker...
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Shawsheen (section Meeker Massacre)
not only the Meeker women, but many others, for her actions within the Meeker Massacre and her protection of the captives. Josephine Meeker wrote about...
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Nicaagat (section Meeker Massacre)
Native American reservation. Nathan Meeker, an Indian agent, was appointed to the White River Indian Agency in 1878. Meeker fought against Utes traditional...
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went for treaty but were slaughtered by US forces (1865–72), and the Meeker Massacre in which the Utes tried to regain control of their lands with warring...
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tracker and guide, including during the Mormon Utah War, following the Meeker Massacre, and during the Battle of the Rosebud in present day Big Horn County...
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Wallace. The troop was patrolling southern Colorado at the time of the Meeker Massacre. On September 29, 1879, a group of Ute warriors, led by Chief Colorow...
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conflict of its kind in Colorado, it followed the Meeker Massacre (September 29, 1879) and Sand Creek Massacre (November 29, 1864). Six or eleven Ute Mountain...
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(or Meeker Massacre)". Meeker Colorado Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on November 17, 2007. Retrieved March 16, 2008. "Alma Massacre, Pioneer...
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Agency (1881–?) Nathan Meeker, Indian agent for the White River Utes for a brief time, 1878–1879, until killed in the Meeker Massacre Return J. Meigs Sr....
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head when Meeker had the pasture and racetrack for the Ute's horses plowed under. The event that followed is known as the Meeker Massacre in 1879, during...
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and Colorado, led to two battles; the Meeker massacre which killed 11 Native agents, and the Pinhook massacre which killed 13 armed ranchers and cowboys...
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White River Utes (section Meeker Battle)
There were also Utes and other whites killed in what was called the Meeker Massacre and the Thornburgh ambush. This ultimately led to the White River Utes...
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White River War (1879) Pinhook Draw fight (15-16 June 1881) Beaver Creek Massacre (June 19, 1885) – Cases of cattle-rustling by the Utes on white cattlemen...
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the state after the Meeker Massacre of 1879. A reservation was created in Utah for the tribes that participated in the massacre. The Southern and Ute...
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Great Railroad Strike (1877) Bland–Allison Act Posse Comitatus Act Meeker Massacre Presidential campaigns 1876 convention election Electoral Commission...
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Reservation was closed by the federal government following the infamous Meeker Massacre. Following the closure of the reservation, the site was settled in...
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Although Colorow and other Utes in the area were removed after the Meeker Massacre of 1879, he did leave a legacy. Present day Colorow Elementary school...
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Illustrated Newspaper, December 6, 1879, depicting the aftermath of the Meeker Massacre. Meeker's grave is at lower left; W. H. Post's grave is at lower right....
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negotiations with the U.S. government. In 1879, he fought during the Meeker Massacre. Eight years later, his family members were attacked during Colorow's...
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Brownsville affair (redirect from Brownsville massacre)
Campaign Fort Tularosa Bannock Uprising Yaqui Uprising Bear Valley Meeker Massacre Spanish–American War Las Guasimas Tayacoba El Caney San Juan Heights...
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Spur Award for a third time in 1969 for his juvenile novel about the Meeker Massacre, with Lewis Patten. Three additional pseudonyms were John S. Daniels...
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