New “Peace Keepers” memorial at Colorado Capitol is more than a sculpture. It will be a place of truth-telling, remembrance and healing.
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 and 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Which way? Whose way? -- The road to dominion -- The bitter conundrum -- Methodists and the American Indian -- John Milton Chivington: the fighting parson -- John Evans, M.D.: entrepreneur and ...
In 1864, over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers—mostly women, children, and the elderly—were brutally murdered by U.S. troops under a flag of truce. This is the shocking, definitive account.