What became known as the Sand Creek Massacre and the deadliest day in Colorado history, remains one of the most controversial events in American history and would change the Cheyenne and Arapaho ...

On the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, I stood on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol when then-Governor John Hickenlooper delivered an official apology for the massacre ...

Back in 2013, when the History Colorado Center shut down its first Sand Creek Massacre exhibition due to protests from Native Americans, it was more than a local scandal and an enduring ...

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — Conservative group Advance Colorado has filed a petition to President Donald Trump seeking to ...

NAISA members stop at The Rock during their procession to commemorate the Sand Creek Massacre on Thursday. Joanna Hou, Assistant Design EditorNovember 18, 2022 ...

The Sand Creek Massacre happened on Nov. 29, 1864, when a U.S. cavalry killed more than 230 Arapaho and Cheyenne people — most of them women, children and elders. It was the deadliest day in ...

The announcement of the expansion of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site by more than 3,000 acres is welcome news for the governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

Those orders helped lead to the Sand Creek Massacre, and Williams found the orders were still valid in Colorado. For years, he campaigned for Gov; Jared Polis to rescind them, which Polis did in 2021.

Troops swept into a sleeping Native American encampment along Sand Creek, killing more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho, most of them women, children and the elderly.

On Nov. 17, a group gathered outside the John Evans Alumni Center for a procession through the Northwestern University campus to commemorate the lost lives of Cheyenne and Arapaho people during the ...

“The Sand Creek Massacre is a Colorado tragedy with national importance,” Sam Bock, historian and lead exhibit developer for this exhibition, said in the release.