It’s been a long time coming. But then, the Sand Creek Massacre was 150 years ago, and the wounds are still fresh for the descendants of those who were injured or killed by Colonel John Chivington’s ...
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, and there will be ceremonies and programs for much of the day at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado, ...
Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down upon. His designs stood in wild opposition to a part of the holiday's ...
SAND CREEK MASSACRE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Colo. -- More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of ...
That’s now changed, with the opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. “We’re the only unit in the National Park Service that has ‘massacre’ in its name,” says the site’s ...
Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial ...
Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial ...
Rick Williams, the leader of an American Indian group called People of the Sacred Land, reacted with disbelief this month upon learning signs were posted at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic ...