ASIN: B00QXYFR82
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 46
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the massacre by survivors and soldiers*Summarizes the official investigations and their findings*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsSand Creek is a relatively small stream of water tributary to the Arkansas River in a dry, sparsely-populated cattle ranchland area of southeastern Colorado near the Kansas border, but at this otherwise unremarkable location on the Great Plains, one of the worst massacres ever perpetrated against Native Americans in 250 years of ongoing conflict took place.On the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led 700 militiamen in a surprise attack against Cheyenne leader Black Kettle's camp at Sand Creek. Chivington was a fire and brimstone Methodist minister who had publicly advocated indiscriminately killing Native American children because “nits makes lice.” Warning his ...
