Hells Canyon Massacre
The Hell Canyon Massacre was a massacre where thirty four Chinese goldminers were ambushed and murdered in May 1887. In 2005, the area was renamed Chinese Massacre Cove, and a memorial was placed there in 2012 in three languages.[1]
During 1887 in Oregon's Hells Canyon on the Snake River, in what came to be known as the Snake River Massacre, a gang of four to six white men robbed, murdered, and mutilated between 10 and 34 Chinese workers, reportedly for their gold.[2] Three people were brought to trial but none were convicted.[3][4]
The five acre site was named Chinese Massacre Cove in 2005.[5]
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- ↑ "Lesson Fifteen: Industrialization, Class, and Race: Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late 19th-Century Northwest," History of Washington State & the Pacific Northwest, Center for Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
- ↑ Nokes, R. Gregory. 2009. Massacred for Gold. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, pp. 179-181.
- ↑ Committee meeting minutes - October 12, 2005, (PDF), U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Domestic Names Committee, U.S. Geological Survey, October 12, 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
