Charley Boston, OR, 1873 October 3

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Source; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Sources Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

- Boston Charley, a full-blooded Modoc Indian who spoke En=—
glish well as an interpreter at the peace conference be-
tween Kintpuash, Chief of the Modocs, and representatives

of the Government on April 11, 1873. —At the conclusion of

_ the conference, when the Indians had not received the _
assurances that they had sought, they fired on the govern=

“ment commissioners and Gen. E.R, S, Canby and Rey, Eleaz

_Thomas were killed. Boston Charley, Kintpuash, Schonchin —

- Schonchin John and Black Jim were 411 con=

-victed aha trial-at-Fort Klamath—and ‘they were hanged on-
Dove LO(S ee

_See: also: KINTPUASH » SCHONCHIN-JOBN-& BLACK JIM

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| Boston Charley, a full-blooded Modoc Indian who ‘spoke En=—|
glish well as an interpreter at the peace conference be
tween Kintpuash, Chief of the Modocs » and representatives
of the Government on April 11, 1873. At the conclusion of
the conference, when the Indians had not received the
assurances that they had sought, they fired on the govern=
ment commissioners and Gen, E, R. S, Canby and Rey. Eleazad
Thomas were killed. Boston Charley, Kintpuash » Schonchin

Schonchin John and Black Jim were all con=
victed-ah_a trial at-Fort Klamath and they were hanged on
Oct. 3, 1873. i

See: also: KINTPUASH , SCHONGHIN-JOBN & BLACK JIM

assurances that they had sought, they fired on the govern~

nent commissioners’and Gen, E.R, S, Canby and Rey, Eleaza
Thomas were killed, Boston Charley, Kintpuash, Schonchin

Schonchin John and Black Jim were 411 con
victed ah a trial at Fort Klanath and they were hanged on
Oct. 3, 1873,

See: also: KINTPUASH, SCHONCHIN JOHN & BLACK JE



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