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On November 29, 1864 seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho villages. These bloody events changed history. Two-thirds of the Native Americans killed or maimed were women and children and a treaty was broken with the Sand Creek massacre .

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