First Magdalena massacre explained

First Magdalena massacre
Location:	Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, New Spain Modern Day: Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico
Date:	November 3, 1757
Type:	Mass murder
Fatalities:	31
Injuries:	Unknown
Perps:	Seri

The First Magdalena massacre was an attack by Seri Native Americans against the Spanish mission village of Magdalena de Kino, in the present day northern Mexico. The attack occurred on November 3, 1757 and was the first of two massacres at the town. The second attack came almost exactly nineteen years later in November, 1776. Not much is known except for the deaths of thirty-one men, women and children, as well as Jesuit missionaries.

See also

• Capture of Tucson (1846)
• Capture of Tucson (1862)
• American Indian Wars
• Apache Wars
• Navajo Wars

References

1. Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1888, History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530–1888. The History Company, San Francisco.
2. Cooper, Evelyn S., 1995, Tucson in Focus: The Buehman Studio. Arizona Historical Society, Tucson. .
3. Dobyns, Henry F., 1976, Spanish Colonial Tucson. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. .
4. Drachman, Roy P., 1999, From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis: Ninety Years of Arizona Memories. Whitewing Press, San Francisco. .