Friday, Nov. 29, marks a grim milestone for the state of Colorado- 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre. Nov. 19, 1864, is the deadliest day in Colorado history. That's when United States soldiers ...
The City of Boulder is looking for the public's help to create a community project recognizing a big part of Colorado history: the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. City officials have been working with ...
Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial ...
At dawn on November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led more than 600 volunteers and troops with the First and Third Colorado Regiments on a violent raid of a peaceful village of Cheyenne and ...
Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial ...
It’s been a long time coming. But then, the Sand Creek Massacre was 150 years ago, and the wounds are still fresh for the descendants of those who were injured or killed by Colonel John Chivington’s ...
EADS, Colo. — Friday marks 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre. More than 200 men, women and children were brutally murdered when military forces attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe ...
Colorado lawmakers on Monday gave unanimous approval to a resolution on the design and location for a memorial to honor the victims of the Sand Creek massacre. The project has been decades in the ...
A petition is asking people to support removing a statue in front of the Colorado state capitol building, claiming it memorializes John Chivington, a Civil War-era colonel who led the Sand Creek ...
Students created tobacco ties and a banner Monday as part of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Making Activity event that honors Native American Lives lost in the tragedy. The event was the ...
That’s now changed, with the opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. “We’re the only unit in the National Park Service that has ‘massacre’ in its name,” says the site’s ...
A stretch of dry, empty prairie where the Sand Creek Massacre took place in Colorado has hardly changed in a century and a half. Back in December 1864, America was still months from the end of the ...