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The Allied Tribes of British Columbia (ATBC) was an Indigenous rights organization formed following the First World War. There were 16 tribal groups involved, all focused on the issues of land claims and aboriginal title in British Columbia. [1]
Mormon militiamen killed 16 Paiute men and women at Circleville, Utah. 6 men were shot, allegedly while trying to escape. The others (3 men and 7 women) had their throats cut. 4 small children were spared. 16 [274] 1867: Aquarius Mountains: Arizona: Yavapai County Rangers killed 23 Indians (men, women and children) in the southern Aquarius ...
In all, nineteen men were killed. In New Westminster , Governor Seymour , just a month into his term, received news of the attacks on May 14. [ 12 ] The next day Chartres Brew and 28 men were sent to Bute Inlet aboard HMS Forward , but they were unable to make their way up the trail from the Homathko valley to the scene of the incident, and ...
Pequot War (1637–1638) — British colonists in what is now Massachusetts allied with some Indian tribes, against the Pequot tribe Kieft's War (1643–1645) — between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (what are now the states of New York , New Jersey , and the surrounding area) and Wappinger Indians
During the American Civil War, most of what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma was designated as the Indian Territory.It served as an unorganized region that had been set aside specifically for Native American tribes and was occupied mostly by tribes which had been removed from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
USS Massachusetts arrived at Port Gamble soon thereafter and, finding that the Haida party had landed and camped at the edge of town, placed a force of 18 armed sailors ashore. The skipper of USS Massachusetts , Commander Samuel Swartwout, twice sent messengers to the Tlingit chiefs with offers to tow them to Victoria , but each offer was rebuffed.
Since the disbanding of the Allied Tribes of British Columbia in 1927, there had been many attempts to create a unified provincial organization, but conflict between the primarily coastal/Protestant Native Brotherhood of British Columbia and the primarily interior/Catholic National American Indian Brotherhood had been too great.
Two-thirds of British Columbia Indigenous died—around 20,000 people. [89] While colonial authorities used quarantine, smallpox vaccine, and inoculation to keep the disease from spreading among colonists and settlers, it was largely allowed to spread among indigenous peoples.