Posted on 06/25/2011 9:38:09 PM PDT by skeptoid
Edited on 06/25/2011 10:13:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Della Cheney remembers playing with a family heirloom growing up in Kake, a rather strange-looking metallic object that wasn't easily moved about. "It was very heavy," Cheney said. "At least 25 pounds."
The heirloom? A roughly 12-inch long, 30-pound unexploded round of ammunition fired by the U.S. military on the village more than 140 years ago in what villagers and other descendents still refer to as "The Kake War."
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Must resist comment or risk being banned...must resist comment or risk being banned...
This is not a Paris Hilton thread!
/sarc
Kake is an interesting chapter of US History. Thanks for sharing.
1869 was not a good year for the the Tlingit Indians in the Kake region of SE Alask.
The Tlingit had been fighting the Russians and putting fear in them for over a century. The US took a different approach, just kill’em, problem solved.
Ah, the good old non-PC days!
Murdering miners had consequences back then.
Now I suppose they WOULD get “Reparations” despite the double homicide.
Vodka and sand. Watch the drunken crabs throw rocks at each other.
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