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.
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