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| Karen Little Thunder and her cousin Phil Little Thunder greet attendees of a memorial ceremony in Ash Hollow State Historical Park Sept. 6, 2025. (Jessica Wade, Nebraska Public Media) |
On Sept. 3, 1855, the U.S. Army launched an attack on an encampment of Sicangu and Ogallala Sioux at Bluewater Creek, just north of Lewellen, Nebraska. The 600 soldiers massacred more than 86 Native Americans, most of them women and children. Many others were taken captive and force-marched to Fort Laramie in Wyoming.
The events of Sept. 3, 1855, were set in motion the year before, by what historians call the “Mormon cow incident.”
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