Accounts of unspeakable violence, then and now
The beating of Tyre and the massacre at Gnadenhutten
What does the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month have to do with the massacre of 96 pacificist Indians in Gnadenhutten, Ohio 241 years ago? Willful authority gone wild. The scale of the latter was greater but the soul of the former is now, with us, stalking our streets.
On March 8, 1782. 241 years ago, in Gnadenhutten, Ohio 96 pacificist…
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