Sand Creek: Battle or Massacre?

✍ Scribed by Bedford/St. Martin's

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This document collection focuses on the U.S. military's November 1864 attack on a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. Students will read and reflect on several primary sources and evaluate the nature of the attack: was this a battle or a massacre? Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.

✦ Subjects

History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

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✍ Ari Kelman 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p>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

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✍ Jerome A. Greene, Douglas D. Scott 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 University of Oklahoma Press 🌐 English

The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its lo

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