History Colorado’s New Sand Creek Massacre Exhibit Rights a Wrong
David Halaas, History Colorado, John Evans, Mount Blue Sky, Northern Arapahoe, Northern Cheyenne, Sand Creek Massacre, Silas Soule
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, 2022-11-29 12:50:00,
November 29, 1864
At dawn on November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led more than 600 volunteers and troops with the First and Third Colorado Regiments on a violent raid of a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho camped along the banks of the Big Sandy, 173 miles southeast of the five-year-old boomtown of Denver. Having just requested a meeting with Territorial Governor John Evans and consulted with the U.S. Army, Cheyenne chief Black Kettle believed that the camp was protected, and was flying the white flag.
But now an estimated 230 tribal members were slaughtered — women, children, elderly men and close to twenty chiefs, including White Antelope, who sang the Cheyenne death song: “Nothing lives long…only the earth and the mountains.”
Black Kettle escaped, grievously injured, and he and other survivors headed up creek beds in the cold, looking for safety. They finally found it far away from Colorado, on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana, the Northern Arapaho reservation in Wyoming, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation in Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, soldiers mutilated the bodies and took their plunder — promised by the recruitment fliers for the 100-day volunteer cavalry posted that August — back to Denver, where their trophies were displayed at the Denver Theater’s holiday show.
April 28, 2012
When the $110 million History Colorado Center opened at 1200 Broadway…
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