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The Cheyenne and their chief were worried that they would be attacked if they went on other territory and they would be shot. So they went to the government and asked where they could go and be safe. They said to sand creek. It was supposed to be theirs and no white men could enter. They settled there and lived. Then the government sent the Colorado Militia to wipe out the Cheyenne. All the Cheyenne died there. Today, there are law suits and stuff about this incident and some decendants from these Cheyenne people can make some money off of these lawsuits.

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Leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sad Creek?

The Sand Creek massacre was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70-163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. Chief Black Kettle was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne after 1854, who led efforts to resist white American settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories. He and his wife were among those killed in 1868 at the Battle of Washita River, in a US Army attack on their camp by George Armstrong Custer.


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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 .


When did Sand Creek massacre happen?

Where Colonel John Chivington led a force of mostly volunteer militiamen which slaughtered hundreds of indians, mostly women and children, and mutilated the bodies taking limbs and organs as trophies which they displayed at the Denver Opera House to a cheering crowd. The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and torturing an estimated 70-163 Indians, about two-thirds of them were women and children. Surprisingly, Chivington was a Methodist minister. And, to make matters worse he used artillery on the village. The location has been designated a National Historic Site and is now the National Park Service.


Who is Colonel Chivington and what event was he responsible for?

He was responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre as the Colonel commanding the Colorado Volunteer Militia.

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The Colorado Territorial Militia attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapahoe village under Chief Black Kettle killing as many as 163 indians. It is known as the Sand Creek Massacre.


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