The Chilcotin War, the Chilcotin Uprising or the Bute Inlet Massacre was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin) people in British Columbia and white road construction workers.

The Chilcotin War was a conflict that took place in British Columbia, Canada in 1864. The war was sparked by the killing of several white settlers by a group of Chilcotin Indigenous people, who were angry over the theft of their land and the destruction of …

Dec 25, 2024 · In April 1864 several road builders and local residents were killed at Bute Inlet, B.C., by a group of Chilcotins (Tsilhqot’ins) under Chief Klatsassin. The attack was motivated by the intrusion of a road being built into the interior, and by the waves of smallpox that had devastated local Indigenous populations.

The "Chilcotin Uprising" was a disturbance which broke out in April of 1864 when a group of Chilcotin Indians massacred fourteen workmen on a trail being built from Bute Inlet to the interior of British Columbia.

Mar 27, 2018 · Only four months after the start of the Chilcotin War, a Confederate raiding party would execute, maim and scalp 24 unarmed Union soldiers in Missouri.

The canoes used by the Chilcotin were formerly of bark, most of them probably the same in type as those of the Carrier. It seems, however, that two or three styles were found, one of them approximating to the “sturgeon-nose” canoe used by the Shuswap.

The Chilcotin (“the people of the Chilco River”) form the extreme southern extension of the territorially connected tribes composing the main body of the Déné or Athapascan family....

Two more attacks, this time back in Chilcotin country, left five British dead. One was William Manning, the rancher. The Tsilqoh'tin warriors were resisting the invasion of their lands; they were defending

CHILCOTIN WAR was not a war at all, but an isolated outbreak of violence in Apr 1864 by a group of TSILHQOT'IN people against a work party cutting a road through their territory. The exact cause of the attack is not known.

It appears to have confined itself to the coast and to the narrow inlets that cut into the mountains of the Xeni gwet’in country from the saltwater. It was known to the Chilcotins who travelled from time to time down the Homathko River to fish, and further downriver to Bute Inlet to trade.