The Comanche village massacre occurred in 1870 when the US Army assaulted a Comanche village in Colorado, massacring the women and children while their husbands were away hunting.
As Chief Scar's Comanche warband terrorized West Texas and the rest of the Southwestern frontier, the US Army waged aggressive war against the Indians. In the winter of 1870, the US Cavalry attacked a village of Comanches who belonged to Scar's Nawyecka band. Most of the victims were elderly men, women, and children, as the young men had gone out to hunt, and Martin Pawley's Indian wife Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky was among the dead.