Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sand Creek Massacre

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At Sand Creek on November 29, 1864, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on Black Kettle and his band, who had been told they would be safe on this desolate reservation. Two hundred Cheyenne men, women and children were slaughtered, and their corpses often grotesquely mutilated, in a massacre that shocked the nation.


http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/sandcreek.htm


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