"Then there are unprincipled and unscrupulous men of all classes who speak and act without reference to the truth and right, in pursuit of their private ends or the gratification of their passions." "Lt. Pease met with the Piegans a week after the massacre and reported only fifteen of the dead Indians in the peaceable Heavy Runner's camp had been of fighting age; the rest were elderly men, women and children. The warriors were on the winter hunt for buffalo. His report was endorsed by General Sully and sent to Washington and caused a public outcry. Horace Clark, son of the well known white trader Malcolm Clark, who had been murdered by his Piegan in-laws, was about fifteen at the time and recovering from a near fatal wound on the night his father was killed, a bullet entering his right nostril and exiting his right ear. He told the Indian Claims Commission that he was in the Baker Massacre and personally knew Chief Heavy Runner,"a good Indian and a friend of the white people. His camp was practically wiped out and those not killed were left homeless in the 40 degree below zero weather, and their camp equipment and provisions burned by the soldiers and horses taken."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.18
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