A Missionary's Fall: The Whitman Scandal Explored

Nov 16, 1997 · on nov. 29, 1847, a faction of cayuse indians seized the whitman mission, killing 13 people and taking 46 others captive for a month until they were ransomed for blankets,. From 1844 until his murder three years later, whitman continued missionary tasks and provided food and sanctuary for immigrants. The cayuse rightly worried about displacement by. Sep 24, 2014 · on november 29, 1847, a small group of cayuse indians attack the whitman mission near walla walla in what will become known as the whitman massacre.

On november 29, 1847, several men, secretly bearing hatchets and guns, visited whitman under the pretense of a medical visit. In the ensuing attack, sixty cayuses and umatillas killed the. Jun 29, 2021 · seven years later, in 1847, several members of the cayuse nation attacked whitman’s mission, killing marcus and narcissa whitman and eleven other white americans in. The hostages were freed a month.