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Mountain Chief Dies Recalling Baker Massacre on Marias River
George M. Case recounts Mountain Chief of the Blackfeet dying at Browning age 94 and links his fate to the Baker massacre near the Marias River. The piece describes Colonel Eugene M. Baker and his four cavalry troops attacking a smallpox camp, wiping out nearly 200 Blackfeet and other Indians in a night assault. It notes prior tensions from the Piegan war and incidents at Fort Benton, including earlier killings viewed by whites as sport. Malcolm Clarke, known as Four Bears, and Mountain Chief's warnings to whites are highlighted as context for ongoing tribal tensions and betrayal.
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George M. Case
Mountain Chief
Browning
Eugene M. Baker
Second Cavalry
Fort Shaw
Marias River
Fort Benton
Alexander Culbertson
Malcolm Clarke
American Fur Co
Prickly Pear
Helena
Clarke
Dawson
Fort Union
River Crows
Messers Carrol and Steel
Liverpool
Dalkeith
Netus-che O
Major Clarke
Ne-tus-che O
Netuschev
Horace
United States
Indian Affairs
Montana
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Fort Ellis
Baker
James Willard Schultz
Church of the Little Flower
Old Man River
Canada
Missouri River
Gros Ventres
Cypress Hills
Richard Sanderville
Whoop Up
Lethbridge
Milk River
East Butte
Sweet Grass
Sweet Grass Hills
Glacier Park
Landerville
Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
McKinley
Omaha
Neb
Wilson
Rodman Wanamaker
Fort Wadsworth
Taft
Queen Marie
Romania
Hugh L. Scott
Scott
Walter
Rosie Mad Wolf
Peter Stairs
Patrick Marceau
Joe Mountain Chief
Heart Butte
Aloussious Red Fox
Alaska
St. Louis
Missouri
Morgan
Fort Pierre
Fort Clarke
Pierre Garreau
Hudson's Bay Co
Thomas H. Benton