Sand Creek Massacre

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• 12/5/2021
  

  Honoring Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre in the Age of COVID

  by Billy J. Stratton

  The community of descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre maintain rituals of healing that honor the dead while affirming bonds of community that have been tested by a long history of dispossession and the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• SOURCE: KUNC
  3/2/2021
  

  Colorado Lawmakers Poised To Replace Capitol's Civil War Monument With Sand Creek Massacre Memorial

  Native American advocates say the Colorado state capitol is an appropriate place for the memorial to the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the US military, but critics question whether it should replace a memorial to the Union Army. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  From Historical Injustice to Contemporary Police Brutality, and Costs of Monuments to the Unworthy

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer, two Civil War-era heroes who rebelled and refused to join a brutal attack against Native peoples represent the moral courage we would do well to honor.

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• 10-1-17
  

  Two Universities Examined a Founder's Role in the Sand Creek Massacre

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Why did they arrive at different conclusions?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12-1-14
  

  The Country's Most Revealing Memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre Used to Celebrate the Killings

  by John B. Judis

  Why, we wondered, have a statue commemorating the soldiers who perpetrated the massacre?

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• SOURCE: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
  11-29-14
  

  Ned Blackhawk recalls the grim details of the Sand Creek Massacre

  The massacre of Native Americans was so horrific that it prompted two Congressional investigations; forced the resignation of two leaders—Colonel John M. Chivington and the governor of Colorado Territory, John Evans—and launched years of battle with the Plains Indians following the Civil War.