Deadliest day in Colorado history: Marking 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre
Friday marks 160 years since Colorado's Sand Creek Massacre, where U.S. soldiers attacked a camp of indigenous people, mostly ...
160 Years Later, Descendants of Army's Sand Creek Massacre Still Wait for Justice
Friday, Nov. 29, marks 160 years since the Sand Creek bloodshed, and the pain of the tragedy still haunts descendants of ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel24 天
Sand Creek an ugly stain on Colorado’s history, resounding horror for Natives
There was peace, briefly. From the time of Wynkoop’s meeting with Black Kettle until the massacre at Sand Creek, “not one single depredation had been committed by the Cheyenne or Arapaho ...
160 years after the Sand Creek Massacre, it remains Colorado's deadliest day
"They need to know our story," said Chester Whiteman, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and tribal ...
npca.org1 年
Second Take
Black Kettle was among those killed that day. Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who led the effort in Congress to establish Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, said there were over 100 ...
Westword10 年
Sand Creek Massacre: Governor John Hickenlooper's Apology, Story Behind It
Black Kettle agreed to a truce and had been assured ... demonstrate a significant level of culpability for the Sand Creek Massacre." Northwestern University's panel found that no "known evidence ...
Military.com19 天
160 Years Later, Descendants of Army's Sand Creek Massacre Still Wait for Justice
The tribes were staying not far from Fort Lyon amid peace negotiations, and Chief Black Kettle had instructed ... mention of reparations for the Sand Creek massacre. Now, 160 years after the ...
9NEWS17 天
Colorado's deadliest day: The Sand Creek Massacre
Friday marks 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre ... Killed him on sight. And Black Kettle was trying to put the American flag up and the flag of truce, the white flag, and the officers ...
Westword9 年
The Sand Creek Massacre Could Be Remembered With a Permanent Memorial at the Colorado Capitol
On Sunday, November 29, on day four of the seventeenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing ... a “surprise attack” on “Chief Black Kettle’s peaceful camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho ...