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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 21, 2014
Caption: Massacre Canyon Battlefield Memorial inscription
Additional Description: Massacre Canyon Battlefield
Memorial
Along this canyon stretching northwest three miles the last battle between Pawnee Nation and Sioux Nation was fought
August fifth
1873
Principal Chiefs
Pawnee - Sky Chief, Sun Chief, Fighting Bear
Sioux - Spotted Tail, Little Wound, Two Strikes
This Monument
Erected by authority of the Congress of the United States as a memorial to the frontier days and Indian wars now forever ended.
Submitted: December 4, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p294112
File Size: 3.803 Megabytes

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