THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, is the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho were killed at the hands of 675 U.S. soldiers, known as the ...
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 ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, I stood on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol when then-Governor John Hickenlooper delivered an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A new exhibit is now at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site visitor center in Eads on the Eastern Plains. It focuses on the living cultures of the two separate tribes betrayed and attacked ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...