Sand Creek Massacre

Honoring Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre in the Age of COVID

by Billy J. Stratton

The community of descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre maintain rituals of healing that honor the dead while affirming bonds of community that have been tested by a long history of dispossession and the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Colorado Lawmakers Poised To Replace Capitol's Civil War Monument With Sand Creek Massacre Memorial

Native American advocates say the Colorado state capitol is an appropriate place for the memorial to the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the US military, but critics question whether it should replace a memorial to the Union Army. 

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.

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

by Billy J. Stratton

Why did they arrive at different conclusions?

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?

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.