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I removed the category Murdered Native Americans from the article. From what is here, it appears Bear Hunter was engaged in warfare against the Mormons. His death in a raid is thus not a murder.
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Bear Hunter (died January 27, 1863) was a Shoshone chief of the Great Basin who strongly resisted white colonization of the area in the 1860s. He and his war parties attacked Mormon colonists, telegraph workers, and wagon trains heading west while federal troops were preoccupied with the American Civil War. In 1862, a Californian volunteer infantry lead by Patrick Edward Connor established a fort on the Wasatch Range near Salt Lake City. In January 1863, they attacked Bear Hunter's village in an action known as the Bear River Massacre today. Bear Hunter was among those killed. ban Seems like a tragic act of war but not a murder. LarryQ ( talk) 03:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Are any of you actually Shoshone? Anyway, I've edited the article accordingly, with references from Bear Hunter's own tribe. The tribe admits that select Shoshone bands did attack settlers, but asserts that it was not Bear Hunter's band (NWB). It's because non-Natives fail to understand the division lines between Shoshone bands (they're not a single, unified tribe!) that misinformation keeps being spread about this event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.159.148 ( talk) 22:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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I removed the category Murdered Native Americans from the article. From what is here, it appears Bear Hunter was engaged in warfare against the Mormons. His death in a raid is thus not a murder.
The article notes:
Bear Hunter (died January 27, 1863) was a Shoshone chief of the Great Basin who strongly resisted white colonization of the area in the 1860s. He and his war parties attacked Mormon colonists, telegraph workers, and wagon trains heading west while federal troops were preoccupied with the American Civil War. In 1862, a Californian volunteer infantry lead by Patrick Edward Connor established a fort on the Wasatch Range near Salt Lake City. In January 1863, they attacked Bear Hunter's village in an action known as the Bear River Massacre today. Bear Hunter was among those killed. ban Seems like a tragic act of war but not a murder. LarryQ ( talk) 03:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Are any of you actually Shoshone? Anyway, I've edited the article accordingly, with references from Bear Hunter's own tribe. The tribe admits that select Shoshone bands did attack settlers, but asserts that it was not Bear Hunter's band (NWB). It's because non-Natives fail to understand the division lines between Shoshone bands (they're not a single, unified tribe!) that misinformation keeps being spread about this event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.159.148 ( talk) 22:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)