Sand Creek Massacre

In school many of us learned about conflicts between the Native Americans and the US Government regarding to land ownership which caused many battles to be fought because although the land was originally the Native American's the US Government wanted that land for themselves. Most of what we learned was on the viewpoint of the US Government but what we really didn't know was certain events that the US Government did to the Native Americans for example the Sand Creek Massacre.

This event which happened in 1864 was a horrific and sad event. Here is a primary document of one of the people who were there that day.http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=693  Colonel Chivington and his men who were volunteers from the US Government attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho when they attacked the village they killed over 200 Native Americans and two thirds of those deaths were of women and children. Before the attack Black Kettle thought they were safe because they had a American flag which marked  the village as friendly and not a threat but that did stop Chivington and his men to attack this village.