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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

by Ari Kelman

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780674503786