Hundreds killed: American mass shootings in context

Bloody Island Massacre - May 15, 1850: 

Nathaniel Lyonand his U.S. Army detachment of cavalry killed 100 Pomo people on Bo-no-po-ti island near Clear Lake, (Lake Co., California).


Bear River Massacre - January 1863: 

A daybreak raid carried out by U.S. soldiers on a winter village of the Northwest Band of Shoshone, killed as many as 250 men, women and children.


Camp Grant Massacre - April 30, 1871: 

Led by the ex-Mayor of Tucson, William Oury, eight Americans, 48 Mexicans and more than 100 allied Pimaattacked Apache men, women and children at Camp Grant, Arizona Territory killing 144, with 1 survivor at scene and 29 children sold to slavery. All but eight of the dead were Apache women or children.


Battle of the Big Hole - August 8, 1877: 

US troops under Colonel John Gibbonattacked a Nez Percevillage at Big Hole, in Montana Territory. They killed 89 men, women and children before being repulsed by the Indians.


Wounded Knee - December 29, 1890: 

More than 150 Lakota men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded (4 men and 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.


Mỹ Lai Massacre - March 16, 1968: 

U.S. Army soldiers killed 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.