The Chilcotin War, the Chilcotin Uprising or the Bute Inlet Massacre was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin) people in ...
Resisting these intrusions, a small group of Tsilhqot'in killed several workers on this road in what is known as the Chilcotin War of 1864. Six Tsilhqot'in were ...
Chilcotin War
The Chilcotin War, the Chilcotin Uprising or the Bute Inlet Massacre was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqot'in people in British Columbia and white road construction workers. Wikipedia
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Mar 21, 2024 · The events of the Chilcotin War of 1864 exemplify the fortitude and the unwavering resistance that defines Tsilhqot'in identity to this very day.
A Tŝilhqot'in Chief named Klatsassin led 24 warriors in a surprise attack at dawn, killing 12 of the road crew who lay asleep in their tents.
Mar 27, 2018 · The attackers were 24 Tsilhqot'in men. Led by a man named Klatsassin, they were on the brink of starvation and only months removed from a ...
Twenty Tsilhqot'in were implicated, six were eventually hanged for the killings but at least one of them killed no one. And if it was a war, how did it end and ...
They were there to honour five Tsilhqot'in chiefs who had been publicly hanged 135 years earlier. The people stood near the unmarked graves of Head. War Chief ...
Feb 11, 2022 · In 1864 the Chilcotin War erupted after British colonials tried to force a wagon road through Tŝilhqot'in Territory to reach the Cariboo goldfields.
The Tsilqhot'in (Chilcotin) decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on June 26, 2014, granted the declaration of Indigenous title to more than 1,700 square ...