Reply #4: Last North American massacre??? What about Sand Creek, CO ? [View All]

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1848 ?? U.S. Calvary attacked women/children/old people in 1864...16 years later...many people do not want to understand that OUR soldiers brutally masscred innocents and mutilated their bodies...."massacred during North America's last large-scale Indian war"...Seattle Post should tell the truth !!! 16 years later, OUR calvary was massacering American Indians....tell the truth...


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"At dawn on November 29, 1864, approximately 700 U.S. volunteer soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a village of about 500 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek - also known as Big Sandy Creek - in southeastern Colorado Territory. Using small arms and howitzer fire, the troops drove the people out of their camp. While many managed to escape the initial onslaught, others, particularly noncombatant women, children, and the elderly fled into and up the bottom of the dry streambed. The soldiers followed, shooting at them as they struggled through the sandy earth. At a point several hundred yards above the village, the people frantically excavated pits and trenches along either side of the streambed to protect them. Some attempted to fight back with whatever weapons they had managed to retrieve from the camp, and at several places along Sand Creek the soldiers shot the people from opposite banks and presently brought forward the howitzers to blast them from their scant defenses. Over the course of seven hours the troops succeeded in killing at least 150 Cheyennes and Arapahos composed mostly of the old, the young, and the weak. During the afternoon and following day, the soldiers wandered over the field committing atrocities on the dead before departing the scene on December 1st to resume campaigning."

http://www.sandcreek.org/Massacre/massacreindex.htm

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The people gathered under the American flag fluttering above Black Kettle’s tipi, thinking this would afford them protection. Quickly, Black Kettle raised a white surrender flag on the same pole. But the soldiers ignored it and began shooting. They unloaded everything they had into the unfortunate villagers – rifle, pistol and cannon fire. The Indians ran in horror. But there was little place to hide. The soldiers herded the women and children into groups and murdered them in cold blood. They then performed outrageous depravities to their corpses. In one instance a six year old girl clutching a white flag was brought down in a hail of bullets – dead before she hit the ground. Babies brains were dashed out against trees. Bodies were scalped and ripped open with knives. Tobacco pouches were made out of men’s private parts.

The 3rd Colorado rode back to Denver with over 100 dripping scalps, which were proudly displayed in a local theatre – the bloody emblems of the most disgraceful attack ever undertaken by the United States Government.


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