Larry Zimmerman draws on an Arikara oral tradition of "teaching a lesson to the chief of the big village" to argue that this event, which saw 90% of its victims scalped, was perpetrated intraculturally within the Initial Coalescent rather than by displaced Middle Missourian groups.
In 1978, the bones of this event's victims were discovered thanks to the erosion of a fortification ditch near Lake Francis Case. Larry Zimmerman draws on an Arikara oral tradition of "teaching a lesson to the chief of the big village" to argue that this event, which saw 90% of its victims scalped, was perpetrated intraculturally within the Initial Coalescent rather than by displaced Middle Missourian groups. Many of the villagers, which included a disparate number of adolescent men suggesting female abduction, had evidence of malnutrition and repeated injuries. (*) For 10 points, name this circa 1325 AD mass killing of a large aboriginal village in South Dakota near a namesake water landmark.
In 1978, the bones of this event's victims were discovered thanks to the erosion of a fortification ditch near Lake Francis Case.
Crow Creek massacre