Massacre Canyon Monument

40.206676388889 -100.96414583333Coordinates: 40 ° 12 '24 " N , 100 ° 57' 50.9" W.

The Massacre Canyon Monument near Trenton , Nebraska in Hitchcock County was erected on September 26, 1930 as the first federal-funded memorial in Nebraska. It commemorates the massacre on August 5, 1873, that allied Sioux Indian tribes carried out on a group of Pawnee Indians. It was the last major battle between warring Indian tribes in North America.

The monument is located on a 12,000 m ² of park-like grounds about 5 kilometers east of the town of Trenton on U.S. Route 34 . The granite obelisk is 11 meters high and weighs 83 tons. The cost of construction was US $ 7,500.

Originally the monument was erected on a hill above the Republican River valley. It was moved to its current location in 1951 due to the construction of a bypass road for Trenton. The memorial is listed on the National Register Information System under number 74001118 and is maintained by the American National Park Administration. It commemorates the 173 Pawnee dead, including 102 women and children, who died in the massacre.

Web links

literature

Boughter, Judith A. The Pawnee Nation: An Annotated Research Bibliography (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press), 2004. ISBN 0-8108-4990-9

Individual evidence

↑ [1] The monument was originally on a hill overlooking the Republican River Valley but was moved to its present site one mile north to Highway 6 & 34 and three miles east of Trenton after the new highway and railroad were built in 1951 bypassing Trenton on the north.
^ National Park Service

[1] [1] The monument was originally on a hill overlooking the Republican River Valley but was moved to its present site one mile north to Highway 6 & 34 and three miles east of Trenton after the new highway and railroad were built in 1951 bypassing Trenton on the north.

[2] National Park Service