What: The Third Colorado Cavalry attacked, unprovoked, and mutilated the braves, squaws and children of the Sand Creek winter camp of the Arapahoe and Cheyenne. Approximately 170 Indians were slaughtered.
When: November 29th, 1864
Who: Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians, Colonel John Chivington (Methodist clergyman), Third Colorado Cavalry, 100-day men, Governor John Evans, Captain Silas Soule, Major Edward W. Wynkoop.
Where: Sand Creek Reservation (Arapahoe & Cheyenne) winter camp. 150 miles east of Colorado Springs.
Significance: The first signs of a policy of Indian tribal extermination by the US Government. The beginning of a US policy of reservations and patrols for confinement of Indians.
When: November 29th, 1864
Who: Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians, Colonel John Chivington (Methodist clergyman), Third Colorado Cavalry, 100-day men, Governor John Evans, Captain Silas Soule, Major Edward W. Wynkoop.
Where: Sand Creek Reservation (Arapahoe & Cheyenne) winter camp. 150 miles east of Colorado Springs.
Significance: The first signs of a policy of Indian tribal extermination by the US Government. The beginning of a US policy of reservations and patrols for confinement of Indians.
