Episodes Located: DATOKA TERRITORY, Territory in the 1860's

  1. Indian Massacre Stuns the Nation
    date December 21, 1866map DATOKA TERRITORY, Territorytags Government, Native-Americans, Politics, War

    "They were mutilated horribly, stripped naked, their bodies cut open and scalped, even to the beards from their faces," reported a New York Times correspondent from Fort Laramie, in what was then the Dakota Territory. On December 21, 1866, a detachment of 81 soldiers under the command of Captain William Fetterman was lured out of Fort Phil Kearny, ambushed by a coalition of Indians, and...