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The Sand Creek Massacre, Part 2: Slaughter of the Innocents
Colonel Chivington led a force of approximately 700 men overnight to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho camp at Sand Creek, arriving on the morning of November 29, 1864. Major Anthony, now with…
American History
The Sand Creek Massacre, Part 1: Lies and Betrayal
The Sand Creek Massacre has gone down in American history as one of the darkest events of the decade's long…
General
This Day In History: Colorado Orders Indians to Sand Creek Reservation (1864)
Today in history, in 1864, the Colorado Governor John Evans demands that all Indians that are living in the area…