March 1782
MassacreBook sources
Gnadenhütten massacre
Ohio; Christian Lenape / Delaware people
Pennsylvania militiamen killed approximately 96 people, including children, after disarming them. Conversion to Christianity and noncombatant status did not protect them from collective punishment.
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Context / qualification
The book gives 42 men, 20 women, and 34 children; avoid presenting religious identity as a measure of whose lives mattered.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4