Tag «Genocide»

Gnadenhutten Massacre

Moravian or Gnadenhutten Massacre. The use of a large Cooper's Mallet to crush in the skulls of prayer Christians is accurately depicted in this 19th century image. So too the scalping of the victims. The hideous murders by Pennsylvania settlers was rarely depicted in images; only two of the vicious act were drawn over the decades.

The Moravian or Gnadenhutten Massacre, March 8, 1782,  resulted in the vicious rape and murder of 96 Moravian Native Americans by Pennsylvania militia settlers in the closing months of the American Revolution. The converted Christian Lenni-Lenape and Mohicans were mostly old men and women and children. Innocent pacifists, because of their commitment to non-violence, they …

General Sullivan’s Expedition Against the Iroquois and the Battle of Newtown

Skoi Yase Heoweh gnogek Once a Home, Now a Memory: Iroquoian In the spring of 1779, Major General John Sullivan was selected to lead an expedition against the Iroquois Nation that was launched later that summer. Most of the Native American Confederation (known as the Longhouse Confederation) had aligned with the British. The campaign was budgeted by …