🖤 “They were not at war. They were at home.”
In 1860, as the sun rose over Nevada’s Hot Creek, a Paiute community began its day like any other — families together, children close to their mothers, elders watching over their people.
They never saw it coming.
Settlers attacked the camp without warning.
No battlefield. No mercy.
Men, women, children — entire families — were erased in moments, simply for existing on their own land.
This wasn’t a clash.
This was a massacre.
The Hot Creek Massacre is one of countless Indigenous tragedies pushed into silence — rarely taught, barely remembered, yet carried in the blood and memory of Native peoples to this day.
History didn’t forget them by accident.
They were made to be forgotten.
Remember their names.
Remember their pain.
Because remembering is the first step toward justice.
🕯️ Never again should a people be erased — from land, from life, or from memory. #nativeamerican #Hidde #FacebookFeed
