What events happened during the Sand Creek Massacre?
Hi T, very good question and it is so nice to find young people
taking an interest in this dark side of American History.
The event you write about took place on November 29, 1864.
This Massacre is also called the Battle of Sand Creek, or the Chivington Massacre.
What happened T. was that Colorado Militia troops attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho American Indians, about 120 miles southeast of Denver. These Indians had surrendered themselves to the U.S. Army at Fort Lyon, they were traveling to an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, and believed themselves to be under the protection of the U.S. Government.
It was mostly women, children, and old men who were slaughtered. Scalps were taken, so were other dismembered body parts, later proudly displayed by the Militia in a theater in Denver, to widespread acclaim.
Congressional and Army investigations soon revealed this "victory" as a national scandal.
This Massacre makes for very interesting reading, there is a lot more to it.
I have included some sites for you to check out.
Good luck my friend.
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/arc...
www.nps.gov/sand/
www.archaeology.org/9911/newsbriefs/sa...
What events happened during the Sand Creek Massacre?passions soap operaThe Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre or the Battle of Sand Creek) was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped on the eastern plains.
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