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  2. Sand Creek massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...

  3. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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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 here on November 29, 1864. The site is considered sacred after the unprovoked assault on an encampment of approximately 750 Native people resulted in the murder of hundreds of men, women and children.

  4. Colorado War - Wikipedia

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    The roads to Denver across the Great Plains were closed from August 15 to September 24. [20] The Hungate massacre involved the murder of the family of Nathan Hungate along Running Creek (Box Elder Creek near present-day Elizabeth, Colorado) on June 11, 1864.[1][2] It was a precipitating factor leading to the Sand Creek massacre of November 29 ...

  5. This day in history - AOL

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    Nov. 29—November 29: 1530 — Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died. 1864 — The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John ...

  6. Ledger art - Wikipedia

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    The Sand Creek massacre as drawn by eyewitness Howling Wolf (1874–1875). Battle exploits dominated ledger art. Other themes such as hunting, courtship, [5] and religious practices were common subjects. Ledger artists also documented their rapidly changing environment by portraying encroaching European Americans and new technologies such as ...

  7. John Evans (Colorado governor) - Wikipedia

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    By bringing railroad service to Denver from several directions, he was responsible for the growth of Denver from a settlement to a city. [3] Evans was forced to resign the governorship in 1865 for his role in instigating the Sand Creek massacre, one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.

  8. Silas Soule - Wikipedia

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    On April 23, 1865, two months after testifying before a U.S. military commission investigating the Sand Creek Massacre, Soule was on duty as provost marshal of the Colorado Territory in Denver, when he went to investigate guns being fired. At around 10:30 p.m., with his pistol out, Soule went around a corner in what is now downtown Denver, and ...

  9. 3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The chiefs agreed to peacefully settle their people on the reservation on Big Sandy Creek about 40 miles northwest of Fort Lyon. The reservation was created under the Fort Wise Treaty of 1860. With Wynkoop's assuring their safety, the chiefs settled their bands in a large village at the curve of Sand Creek.