The Cypress Hills Massacre [1] [2] [3] occurred on June 1, 1873, near Battle Creek in the Cypress Hills region of Canada's North-West Territories (now in Saskatchewan).

May 31, 2013 · Violence peaked on the morning of June 1, 1873, when traders and some wolf hunters from Fort Benton scattered an Assiniboine camp of 50 lodges, killing at least 20 men, women, and children beside what is now called Battle Creek, a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Saskatchewan.

The intensely competitive trade for buffalo robes, furs, and the attendant trade in whiskey ultimately produced the volatile conditions responsible for the Cypress Hills Massacre of June 1, 1873. It was the theft of some horses from a party of American wolfers by the Cree that set in motion the chain of events that culminated in the massacre of ...

May 31, 2018 · On June 1st 1873, a group of American-based wolf hunters attacked and ruthlessly killed members of an impoverished gathering of Nakoda who were camping in the Cypress Hills. The site of the Cypress Hills Massacre, where many Nakoda lost their lives, is the place to which their spirits are tied forever.

Cypress Hills Massacre National Historic Site of Canada is located about 2 km south of Fort Walsh National Historic Site of Canada in a broad valley bottom where American traders attacked a Nakoda camp.

Jan 6, 2017 · The spark for the massacre at Cypress Hills flared up three weeks earlier when a party of wolfers—those who hunted and trapped wolves for their profitable pelts—camped along the Teton River a day’s ride from Fort Benton, Montana Territory.

Jul 10, 2021 · Sadly, it all began with the slaughter of Indigenous in the Cypress Hills in an event now known as the Cypress Hills Massacre. For centuries, the Cypress Hills had been an important meeting place for the Indigenous of the Canadian West.