Sand Creek Massacre

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• 8/2/2020
  

  From Historical Injustice to Contemporary Police Brutality, and Costs of Monuments to the Unworthy

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer, two Civil War-era heroes who rebelled and refused to join a brutal attack against Native peoples represent the moral courage we would do well to honor.

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• 10-1-17
  

  Two Universities Examined a Founder's Role in the Sand Creek Massacre

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Why did they arrive at different conclusions?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12-1-14
  

  The Country's Most Revealing Memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre Used to Celebrate the Killings

  by John B. Judis

  Why, we wondered, have a statue commemorating the soldiers who perpetrated the massacre?

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• SOURCE: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
  11-29-14
  

  Ned Blackhawk recalls the grim details of the Sand Creek Massacre

  The massacre of Native Americans was so horrific that it prompted two Congressional investigations; forced the resignation of two leaders—Colonel John M. Chivington and the governor of Colorado Territory, John Evans—and launched years of battle with the Plains Indians following the Civil War.