THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho Massacred at Sand Creek

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Monday, November 29, 2022, is the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho were killed at the hands of 675 U.S. soldiers, known as the Colorado territory militia.

Among the dead on November 29, 1864 were at least 105 women, children and elders.

The soldiers were commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington to attack a village of about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho along the Sand Creek River in Colorado.

For years, the United States had been engaged in conflict with several American Indian tribes over territory rights. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851 had given the American Indians extensive territory, but the Pikes Peak gold rush in 1858 and other factors had persuaded the U.S. to renegotiate the terms of the treaty. In 1861, the Treaty of Fort Wise was signed by Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/day-history-230-cheyenne-arapaho-023602392.html

[cilla4progress]

1. Fucked

up

[3Hotdogs]

2. Chivington was accused of staging the massacre so that he wouldn't be transferred to Civil War

posts. Safer to fight Cheyenne and Arapaho than to fight rebels.

Chivngton is also the one who announced, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."


For a good read on Chivington, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee."

[czarjak]

3. Worthless treaties were what they were.

[DemocraticPatriot]

4. One of the most shameful days in American history...

and one of those days about which I fantasize
about going back in time to assassinate a genocidal maniac,
and fight on the side of the native Americans...

[Marcus IM]

5. Is this when America was great? n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. Look up Camp Grant. The Apache were SURRENDERED to the US army with that massacre

Black Kettle was duped and paid the price in Colorado.

Eskiminzin was promised security by Lt. Royal Whitman, but the people of Tucson and the Tohono o'Odham did their butchering behind his back.

BTW, both Chivington and the VIPS of Tucson (that have building, cities, parks, roads, neighborhoods, mountains, and public buildings named after them) never saw one day of jail for any of it.

[fightforfreedom]

7. Black Kettle survived the Sand Creek Massacre.

Four years later he was killed by Custer and the 7th cavalry. Eight years later Custer and his men were killed at the Little Big Horn. Some of the survivors of Sand Creek fought at the Little Big Horn.