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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the “Battle of Sand Creek” Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was...
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    Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado, commemorating the Sand Creek Massacre that occurred...
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    heinous atrocities in American military history: the November 1864 Sand Creek massacre. An estimated 70 to 600 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho – about two-thirds...
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    inexperience in dealing with Indians was what sparked the Sand Creek Massacre. The events at Sand Creek sparked outrage among the Arapaho and Cheyenne, resulting...
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    Sand Creek massacre. The engagement, initially hailed as a great victory, was later publicly condemned as an act of genocidal brutality. The massacre...
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    command of 1st Colorado Cavalry, Company D that was present at Sand Creek and the massacre of Native Americans that occurred there on November 29, 1864...
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    governorship in 1865 for his role in instigating the Sand Creek massacre, one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history. Evans was born...
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    living in the Great Plains until his killing at the Sand Creek massacre. Accounts of the massacre conflict as to whether White Antelope led his people...
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    before Kiowa County was formed, a massacre of Native Americans—a group of old men, women, and children—occurred on Sand Creek that initially was greeted as...
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    Lyon were again relocated to Sand Creek. Niwot is generally believed to have died in the subsequent Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. Many place names in Boulder...
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    November 29, Chivington attacked the Sand Creek reservation; the event became known as the Sand Creek massacre. Most of the warriors were out hunting...
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    Cheyenne at the Sand Creek Massacre when a peaceful encampment of mostly women, children, and the elderly were attacked and massacred by US soldiers....
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  • Nebraska Sand Creek (Willow Creek tributary), a stream in Rock County, Nebraska Big Sandy Creek (Colorado), site of the Sand Creek Massacre Big Sandy Creek (Montana)...
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    with the Dog Soldiers band of Cheyenne warriors after surviving the Sand Creek Massacre. Julia or Um-ah was born in 1847; she was named in English for Bent's...
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    1860s tensions increased and culminated in the Colorado War and the Sand Creek Massacre, where Colorado volunteers fell on a peaceful Cheyenne village killing...
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    warrior who was a member of Black Kettle's band and was present at the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. After being imprisoned in the Fort Marion in Saint Augustine...
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  • the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory. Nelson and Gay intended to utilize the narrative surrounding the Sand Creek massacre as an allegory...
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    Indians on Sand Creek had been assured by the US government that they would not be attacked. Instead, in what is known as the Sand Creek massacre, Chivington...
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    2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, p. 33. Bibliography Hoig, Stan, The Sand Creek Massacre (Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1961). Hyde, George E. The Life of George...
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  • Colorado) on June 11, 1864. It was a precipitating factor leading to the Sand Creek massacre of November 29, 1864. The Hungate family moved to the area, about...
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    Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward (particularly due to the Sand Creek Massacre perpretrated by the US Army, which he survived). He was the mixed-race...
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    who had worked to create peace for the Cheyenne, died during the Sand Creek massacre on November 29, 1864. Ochinee, a sub-chief, helped negotiate a treaty...
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  • and Indians, leading to the Colorado War of 1864, including the Sand Creek Massacre. By the terms of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United...
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    Cheyenne chief who negotiated for peace and was killed during the Sand Creek massacre. He began his career as a trader when he was eighteen years of age...
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    Her father was a Cheyenne peace chief who was killed during the Sand Creek massacre on November 29, 1864, after which she became a mediator between Colorado...
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    1865 by about 1,000 Cheyenne and Sioux men in retribution for the Sand Creek massacre. At Fort Sedgwick, the Native Americans (Indians) killed ten soldiers...
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  • 1770) 1865 – Silas Soule, American soldier and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre (b. 1838) 1889 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and...
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  • affairs of the Colorado Territory, was instigated the November 1864 Sand Creek massacre (which was carried out by Colonel John Chivington, later a member...
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  • Native Americans on the plains of Colorado, which became known as the Sand Creek Massacre Chivington Drive, a street in Longmont, Colorado, named for Colonel...
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