The Sand Creek Massacre happened in 1864 in what is now
Colorado. This was an incident in which something in the area of 200 to 400 (this
depends on what source you read) Cheyenne Indians were killed in cold blood by a group
of militia led by Col. J. M. Chivington.
The Cheyenne were
being pushed out of Colorado because gold had been discovered in the area of Pikes
Peak. The Indians resisted, but the band of Cheyennes that Chivington and his men
attacked were camped peacefully and were not doing anything to warrant having been
killed. This massacre is seen as one of the worst in the history of white-Indian
interactions.
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