Eric Sterner
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Anatomy of a Massacre

The Destruction of Gnadenhutten, 1782

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An Act of Unfathomable Cruelty that Presaged Post-Revolutionary America's Treatment of Native Americans On March 8, 1782, a group of western settlers killed nearly one hundred unarmed and peaceful Indians who had converted to Christianity under the tutelage of missionaries from the Church of the United Brethren. The murders were cold-blooded and heartless; roughly two-thirds of those executed were women and children. Since that maelstrom of violence struck the small Indian village of Gnadenhutten, history has treated the episode as a simple morality tale. While there were ample incidents of go...