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massacre
in
There There, by Tommy Orange
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- Thanksgivings like these happened everywhere, whenever there were what we have to call "successful massacres."†
p. 5.4 *
- Massacre as Prologue†
p. 8.1
- Some of us grew up with stories about massacres.†
p. 8.1
- The one story you were sure to hear from your dad, the one thing you knew for sure about what it means to be Indian, was that your people, Cheyenne people, on November 29, 1864, were massacred at Sand Creek.†
p. 217.2
- All these people in regalia on the ground like it's a massacre.†
p. 279.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(massacre) crushing defeat or brutal, overwhelming attack — used figuratively in competition and literally for violent killings
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)