“The Sand Creek Massacre,”an award-winning documentary film that was recently cataloged into Smithsonian Institute Libraries, depicts a history of Colorado about whom many would rather turn their ...
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 ...
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 ...
Craig Moore knows that Sand Creek can be a hard sell, especially to a group of teenagers on spring break. Groggy from the 2 ½-hour drive from Denver, they pile out of two Chevy Suburbans and stand, ...
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 fifteenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run was full of moving sights and sounds — from its start at the actual massacre site, which is marked by a sign advising visitors of the “sacred ...
Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down upon. His designs stood in wild opposition to a part of the holiday's ...
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 ...
Colorado’s deadliest day was November 29, 1864 when more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people who had been trying to make peace with white settlers were murdered by U.S. troops in a surprise attack.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...