But now an estimated 230 tribal members were slaughtered — women, children, elderly men and close to twenty chiefs, including ...
In the early morning hours of November 29, 1864, Colonel John M. Chivington led soldiers of the 1 st and 3rd Regiments to ...
"They need to know our story," said Chester Whiteman, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and tribal ...
Descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre victims returned to southeast Colorado this fall to resume a tradition of healing.
Chivington always maintained there were hostile Indians in Black Kettle’s camp. As proof, he reported his soldiers had found ...
Friday, Nov. 29, marks 160 years since the Sand Creek bloodshed, and the pain of the tragedy still haunts descendants of ...
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November 29, the Sand Creek Massacre
On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, ...
The soldiers returned to Boulder from the massacre as heroes. And 100 years later, the idea that Fort Chambers had "stood ...
It's been 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre- when United States soldiers attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped in ...
But now an estimated 230 tribal members were slaughtered — women, children, elderly men and close to twenty chiefs ... John Hickenlooper created a Sand Creek Massacre Commission to determine ...
A subsequent treaty two years later reduced the lands promised to the Cheyenne and Arapaho and made no mention of reparations for the Sand Creek massacre. Now, 160 years after the massacre ...