Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Massacre Canyon Battle took place on August 5, 1873, in Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was one of the last battles between the Pawnee and the Sioux and the last large-scale battle between Native American tribes in the area of the present-day United States of America. The battle occurred when a combined Oglala/Brulé Sioux war party of over 1000 warriors attacked a party of Pawnee on their summer buffalo hunt. According to Indian agent John W. Williamson, who accompanied the hunting party, "On the 2d day of July, 1873, the Indians, to the number of 700, left Genoa for the hunting grounds. Of this number 350 were men, the balance women and children."The Pawnee were traveling along the west bank of the canyon, which runs south to the Republican River, when they were attacked. Sixty-nine Pawnee were killed, most of whom were non-combatant women and children. This massacre was one of the factors that led to the Pawnees' decision to move to a reservation in Indian Territory in what is today Oklahoma.Principal chiefs at the battle were:Pawnee: Sky Chief, Sun Chief, Fighting Bear, Ruling His Son.Sioux: Spotted Tail (Brulé chief), Little Wound (Oglala chief), Two Strike (Brulé chief). Chief Charging Bear (John Grass, Sihasapa).Among the Pawnee dead were the wife and four children of Traveling Bear, a former sergeant in the Pawnee Scouts who served under Major Frank North and a Medal of Honor recipient."@en }
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- Massacre_Canyon abstract "The Massacre Canyon Battle took place on August 5, 1873, in Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was one of the last battles between the Pawnee and the Sioux and the last large-scale battle between Native American tribes in the area of the present-day United States of America. The battle occurred when a combined Oglala/Brulé Sioux war party of over 1000 warriors attacked a party of Pawnee on their summer buffalo hunt. According to Indian agent John W. Williamson, who accompanied the hunting party, "On the 2d day of July, 1873, the Indians, to the number of 700, left Genoa for the hunting grounds. Of this number 350 were men, the balance women and children."The Pawnee were traveling along the west bank of the canyon, which runs south to the Republican River, when they were attacked. Sixty-nine Pawnee were killed, most of whom were non-combatant women and children. This massacre was one of the factors that led to the Pawnees' decision to move to a reservation in Indian Territory in what is today Oklahoma.Principal chiefs at the battle were:Pawnee: Sky Chief, Sun Chief, Fighting Bear, Ruling His Son.Sioux: Spotted Tail (Brulé chief), Little Wound (Oglala chief), Two Strike (Brulé chief). Chief Charging Bear (John Grass, Sihasapa).Among the Pawnee dead were the wife and four children of Traveling Bear, a former sergeant in the Pawnee Scouts who served under Major Frank North and a Medal of Honor recipient.".