The Write Team Daily: "Massacre At Ash Hollow"

The Write Team Podcast · Sep 3, 2026 · 29m

Today's episode of The Write Team Daily revisits the Battle of Ash Hollow, also known as the Ash Hollow Massacre, on September 3, 1855. Near Blue Water Creek, General William S. Harney and roughly 700 U.S. soldiers attacked a Brulé Sioux village in a bloody confrontation that killed an estimated 100 Sioux—including women and children—and intensified the cycle of violence between Native Americans and the United States during westward expansion.

Then, revisit the Stars and Stripes reportedly being carried into battle for the first time at Cooch's Bridge, the Treaty of Paris ending the American…