Shoshone Mike Mass Grave Site
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Shoshone Mike Mass Grave Site

Humboldt County, Nevada, USA

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    Coordinates: 41.22414, -117.19143
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This site is located in a dry wash cutting through the barren sagebrush flats a mile or two from Kelly Creek. It marks the location of the last Indian massacre on American soil, which occurred on February 25, 1911. It also was the initial resting place of Shoshone Mike Dagget and seven members of his family who were slain in the three-hour battle. Their bodies were heaped together in a mass grave, which had to be blasted into the frozen soil with dynamite.

Here they slept undisturbed until the local rancher upon whose land they rested donated the remains to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., probably in the 1950's. They were kept there in the archives until they were repatriated to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall, Idaho on July 11, 1994. They were presumably reinterred somewhere on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

This site is located in a dry wash cutting through the barren sagebrush flats a mile or two from Kelly Creek. It marks the location of the last Indian massacre on American soil, which occurred on February 25, 1911. It also was the initial resting place of Shoshone Mike Dagget and seven members of his family who were slain in the three-hour battle. Their bodies were heaped together in a mass grave, which had to be blasted into the frozen soil with dynamite.

Here they slept undisturbed until the local rancher upon whose land they rested donated the remains to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., probably in the 1950's. They were kept there in the archives until they were repatriated to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall, Idaho on July 11, 1994. They were presumably reinterred somewhere on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2573514