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Bookmark or Share- Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)On November 29th, 1864, Chiefs Black Kettle, White Antelope, Left Hand and others were encamped with around 750 Arapaho and Cheyenne people in a valley by the Big Sandy Creek. A hope for peace, brought forth by Black Kettle was in the balance.
- Sand Creek Massacre | Definition, Casualties, & Facts - BritannicaThe Sand Creek Massacre was a surprise attack by about 675 U.S. troops under Colonel John M. Chivington on a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory in November 1864. More than 230 Native Americans were massacred.
- Sand Creek massacre - WikipediaThe Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers ...
- Sand Creek Massacre - World History EncyclopediaThe Sand Creek Massacre was a slaughter of Cheyenne and Arapaho, mainly women, children, and the elderly, by US troops under Colonel Chivington on 29 November 1864.
- The Sand Creek Massacre - Teaching American HistoryThe story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge. It is an all too familiar story of white settlement encroaching on native land in numbers too large to resist.
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