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Reporting from SAND CREEK MASSACRE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Colo. July 31, 2016. C raig Moore knows that Sand Creek can be a hard sell, especially to a group of teenagers on spring break.
Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site will more than double in size to cover more than 6,500 acres of shortgrass prairie-a broadening federal project in tandem in tandem with ...
The Sand Creek Massacre of December 1864 left nearly 200 people dead. Now, hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho are returning to the Colorado site to mark the 150th anniversary of the tragedy.
History Colorado debuts Sand Creek Massacre exhibit 02:57. Nearly 158 years ago, on Nov. 29, 1864, Colonel Chivington led U.S. Army soldiers in an attack on innocent Cheyenne and Arapaho people ...
References to the Sand Creek Massacre are everywhere these days, including page 55 of the new AP United States History course, one of the most controversial -- if unread -- documents in Colorado ...
Volunteer American soldiers massacred approximately Cheyenne and Arapahoe at Sand Creek, Colo., on Nov. 29, 1864. Here's a look at how that anniversary will be remembered in the coming days.
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is unique within the national park system for throwing a spotlight on an atrocity that took place on American soil — a day of ethnic cleansing in ...
“The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever” continues at the History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway. Info: 303-447-8679 or historycolorado.org.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — Conservative group Advance Colorado has filed a petition to President Donald Trump seeking to ...
The Sand Creek Massacre was one of the most brutal episodes of violence against Indigenous people in U.S. history, killing over 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of whom were women or children.
At dawn on November 29, on the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, more than 500 descendants of massacre survivors and other tribal members gathered on Monument Hill for private ...
Professor Ari Kelman talked about the Sand Creek Massacre. The attack took place on November 29, 1864 when members of the Colorado Territory militia attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho village in the ...