29 November 1864
MassacreBook sources
Sand Creek massacre
Colorado Territory; Cheyenne and Arapaho people
Colorado troops under John Chivington attacked a community seeking peace, killed large numbers of women, children, and other residents, and mutilated bodies. Later investigation documented the atrocity without securing comparable criminal accountability.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The ebook reports 133 killed; the National Park Service gives approximately 230. The timeline flags the discrepancy rather than merging counts.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
- National Park Service: Sand Creek history and culture ↗