January 7

RCMP attack Wetsuweten land defenders

WCH:
On 7 January 2019, a group of Indigenous land defenders was attacked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who had been instructed to use violence and were prepared to use deadly force. T…

Battle of Julesburg

On this day in 1865, about five weeks after the Sand Creek Massacre, 1,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota Indians attacked about 60 soldiers of the U.S. army and 40 to 50 civilians. Indigenous forces …

Battle of Catirai

The Battle of Catirai was a battle that took place on January 7, 1569, in the Catirai region in Chile during the Arauco War. The battle was fought between Mapuche forces led by the chieftains Llangan…