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.