1898 Cripple Creek CO newspaper "EXTRA" wUSE of "REDSKINS" as INDIAN racial slur

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1898 Cripple Creek CO newspaper "EXTRA" wUSE of "REDSKINS" as INDIAN racial slur
1898 Cripple Creek CO newspaper "EXTRA" w USE of "REDSKINS" as a racial slur against NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS at the BATTLE of SUGAR POINT in MINNESOTA
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Cripple Creek Citizen "EXTRA"
(Cripple Creek, COLORADO) dated Oct 6, 1898. This rare early original Cripple Creek, CO newspaper "EXTRA" contains prominent headlines and news coverage of the
BATTLE OF SUGAR POINT
, considered to be the LAST BATTLE of the INDIAN WARS in the US.
Interesting to see the use of the racial slur "REDSKINS" in the headline to describe the Native American Indians fighting against the US Army on the Old Northwest frontier
The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.
Often referred to as "the last Indian Uprising in the United States", the engagement was also the first battle to be fought in the area of the United States known as the Old Northwest since the Black Hawk War in 1832. It is sometimes considered[who?] to be the last battle fought between Native Americans and the U.S. Army.
The last Medal of Honor issued during the Indian Wars was awarded to Private Oscar Burkard of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment.
Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is labeled "usually offensive", "disparaging", "insulting", or "taboo".
The origin of the choice of red to describe Native Americans in English is debated. While related terms were used in anthropological literature as early as the 17th century, labels based on skin-color entered everyday speech around the middle of the 18th century. "At the start of the eighteenth century, Indians and Europeans rarely mentioned the color of each other's skins. By midcentury, remarks about skin color and the categorization of peoples by simple color-coded labels (red, white, black) had become commonplace."
Very rare
early Cripple Creek, CO newspaper. It contains national and international news as well as
LOCAL
news and ads from Cripple Creek, COLORADO from 1897, some 125 years ago
.
The City of Cripple Creek is the Statutory City that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. Cripple Creek is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located 44 miles southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak.
A few years after gold was discovered in Cripple Creek, political differences between area miners and mine owners, many of whom lived in Colorado Springs, resulted in the division of El Paso County. Created in 1899, Teller County was carved from the western slope of Pikes Peak, and was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller. Within five years of its formation, Teller County became the scene of a dramatic labor struggle called the Colorado Labor Wars.
For many years, Cripple Creek's high valley, at an elevation of 9,494 feet, was considered no more important than a cattle pasture. Many prospectors avoided the area after the Mount Pisgah hoax, a mini gold rush caused by salting (adding gold to worthless rock).
On 20 October, 1890, Robert Miller "Bob" Womack discovered a rich ore and the last great Colorado gold rush began. Thousands of prospectors flocked to the region, and before long Winfield Scott Stratton located the famous Independence lode, one of the largest gold strikes in history. In three years, the population increased from five hundred to ten thousand. Although 0 million worth of gold ore was dug from Cripple Creek, Womack died penniless on 10 August 1909.
In 1896, Cripple Creek suffered two disastrous fires. The first occurred on April 25, destroying half of the city, including much of the business district. Four days later, another fire destroyed much of the remaining half. The city was rebuilt in a period of a few months; most historic buildings today date back to 1896. By 1900, Cripple Creek and its sister city, Victor, were substantial mining communities.
During the 1890s, many of the miners in the Cripple Creek area joined a miners' union, the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). A significant strike took place in 1894, marking one of the few times in history that a sitting governor called out the national guard to protect miners from anti-union violence by forces under the control of the mine owners. By 1903, the allegiance of the state government had shifted, and Governor James Peabody sent the Colorado National Guard into Cripple Creek with the goal of destroying union power in the gold camps. The WFM strike of 1903 and the governor's response precipitated the Colorado Labor Wars, a struggle that took many lives.
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