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<title>Newspaper Coverage of Camp Grant Massacre: Article #7</title>
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<title>The Miner, May 27, 1871, p.2</title>
<author>George Conklin</author>
<author>Chan Hee Chu</author>
<author>Alex Hughes</author>
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<head>125 INDIANS KILLED</head>
<head>Righteous Retribution</head>
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<p>Want of time and space prevented more than a brief mention of the fact in the last number of the MINER, that on Sunday, April 29th, 125 <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#pinal_indians">Pinal</term> Apache Indians were killed in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#aravypa_cañon">Arivipa Canyon</placeName>, and 28 children taken alive.</p>
<p>The Arizona Citizen of May 6th has a column of particulars of, and comments on the killing, from which we collate these items, premising that the canyon is situated south of the <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#gila_river">Gila river</placeName>, some forty miles east of <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#florence">Florence</placeName>, and about sixty miles north of <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tucson">Tucson</placeName>. For weeks it had been known that a band of Indians were camped in that vicinity, and numbers of animals stolen from the friendly <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#papago_indians">Papago Indians</term> near <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tucson">Tucson</placeName>, and from Mexican and American settlers around <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tucson">Tucson</placeName> and <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#san_xavier">San Xavier</placeName>, had been trailed into the canyon. Evidence was found proving satisfactorily that four citizens in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#san_pedro_river">San Pedro valley</placeName> were murdered by the party there encamped. These discoveries were rendered more aggravating by the fact that those redskins had made one of the old style <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#pinal_indians">Pinal</term> treaties with the commander of <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#camp_grant">Camp Grant</placeName>, had been receiving rations from that post for some time, and had in an apparently friendly mood settled themselves in the canyon, near the post, and while eating, Government supplies would make their murderous raids, and return under the shadow, as it were, of <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#camp_grant">Camp Grant</placeName>, to gorge themselves on the meat of stolen mules, horses, donkeys and cattle, rejoicing over their plunder and resting in fancied security till prepared to make another descent on some defenseless settler, or traveler. Having the proof of their treachery, the dwellers in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tucson">Tucson</placeName> and vicinity went after the <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#pinal_indians">Pinals</term>, and of the entire band in camp at the time of attack, only seven are known to have escaped.</p>
<p>The Citizen vindicates the killing--justifies it, and at length recites the provocation, and its editor is excusable for so doing, as he is only a recent settler in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#arizona">Arizona</placeName>.</p>
<p>But we applaud and glorify the deed, and rejoice in the establishment of that reservation in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#aravypa_cañon">Arivipa Canyon</placeName>, where 125 good <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#pinal_indians">Pinals</term> shall rest without hunger, or thirst till resurrection.</p>
<p>Last November 500 Sharps and Spencer carbines, procured from Government, were distributed to Arizonans, with plenty of ammunition to enable them to protect themselves against the Apaches. The surest protection that can be devised is to show these devils in human shape that we can whip them and will do it.</p>
<p>Again and again during the past bloody years, has the MINER urged upon the settlers to organize and carry the war home to the villages of the redskins. Now, shall we faint at the result of our teachings? Shall we apologize?</p>
<p>One fact alone would forbid that we should do so: At <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tubac">Tubac</placeName>, march 20, 1871, an Arizona pioneer, <persName ref="./glossaries.xml#leslie_wooster">L.B. Wooster</persName>, and a Mexican woman, <persName ref="./glossaries.xml#trinidad_iguera">Trinidad Iguera</persName>, were killed by Indians. In the <term corresp="./glossaries.xml#pinal_indians">Pinal</term> camp, after the slaughter, a breastpin was found and recognized by her friends at <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tucson">Tucson</placeName> as the one always worn by the woman killed at <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#tubac">Tubac</placeName>--that would be enough.</p>
<p>But the whole past history of our Territory would haunt us to the grave, if weak enough to endeavor to palliate or excuse this massacre. (For such it was,--we don't mince matters, or apply words to the acts of savages that we fear to describe similar deeds of our own with.) No! a thousand times NO. The blood of our relatives and friends, spill on nearly every road and trail in every farming settlement and mining district in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#arizona">Arizona</placeName>, cries out to us from the ground to rejoice that they are partially avenged.</p>
<p>Will the advocates of the Quaker policy howl through the Eastern press, and call the act another Piegan horror? Let them; and we suggest a new name: let such deeds in <placeName ref="./glossaries.xml#arizona">Arizona</placeName> be known as Pinalization. How is that for high?</p>
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