Today in Labor History January 23, 1870: U.S. cavalrymen killed 200 Piegan Blackfeet, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. Indigenous writer James Welch portrays the massacre in his novel, “Fools Crow.” A. B. Guthrie Jr also portrays the massacre in the novel, “Fair Land, Fair Land.”
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