whitman+massacre+(justin+f)


 * What is your //general// belief about who or what is most responsible for causing the conflict?**

I believe that the cayuse indians are the most responsible people for causing the whitman masacre to take place in 1847.

**What is the relevant background information (i.e. who, what, when, where)?**

The people involved with the whitman massacre were the whitmans, cayuse indians, and the other whitman missions residents. the whitman massacre took place at the whitman mission during the year of 1847. 13 people where killed at the whitman mission and 1 other was believed to have drown after escaping from the mission. Also, 47 white children and women were took hostage.

**What were 3 factors that helped cause the conflict (politics, economics, geography, history)?**

The decline of fur trade took away some of the indians supplies because they couldnt trade. Also the rise of industry caused the cayuse to attack the whtiman mission because less people traded with them. The biggest reason was that the cayuse believed that the whitmans were not trying to help them cure the measels.

**Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

One factor could have upset them more then another factor, such as the measels made the cayuse more upset with the whitmans then anything else.

**How could the conflict have been avoided?**

The conflict could have most likely been avoided if the indians would have know how hard it is to get rid of measels and that dr. Whitman really was trying as best as he could to help the indians take care of the massive number if deaths daily.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

Website citation: Wilma, David. Cayuse attack mission in what becomes known as the whitman massacre on november 29, 1847. history link.org. accessed on may 21st, 2009. Book citation: Lambert, Dale A. and Clark, Dustin W. Washington A state of contrasts. East Wenatchee WA. DMI. 2008. (page numbers 200-201) 2nd website citation: Weiser, Kathy. "native american legends. the cayuse war, revenge for the measels"Legendsofamerica.com. accessed May 22nd 2009. <http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-cayusewar.html