Sand Creek Massacre, 1864: Tragedy on the Big Sandy
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2022
- Credit to Paul I. Wellman: Death on the Prairie, 1934
This video attempts to provide the context leading up to the massacre of the Cheyenne village in the winter of 1864. The settlers of Colorado endured two summers of Indian raids from Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Sioux, Ute, Apache, and even Comanche warbands. Local Coloradan government sought negotiation with the peace chiefs of the Cheyenne and Arapaho, only to be thwarted by warlike Dog Soldier faction in Cheyenne inter-tribal politics. Firmly under the influence of the Dog Soldiers, Cheyenne and Arapaho raids increased in the summer and autumn of 1864. Colorado retaliated on November 29th, against a Cheyenne village on Big Sandy Creek.
Ummm Roman Nose wasn’t Arapaho he was Cheyenne
When the army wiped out a village it was a massacre when the Indians wiped out a settlement it was a raid
No matter how you try to lodge a defense on the actions of the military on that day there is no way to justify the actions and atrocities perpetrated by Chivington and his men on that day.
The Sand Creek Massacre did not happen in a vacuum. Current sentiment ignores the depredations by the tribes before the massacre.
The army carried out what would now be considered atrocious war crimes. The indians carried out similar atrocities in rebellion against the occupiers. Both sides felt righteous. Neither side was right.
I am of an age brought up on the lies of Hollywood, how different I now look upon the history of that time.
U have done a great job with your presentation, thank you. :) Many decades ago I was a State utility worker and lived close by this site, way before it was developed, and I would go there frequently to walk the fort area and battle area. I remember at the fort if I kicked the soil artifacts from the fort would be visible, they clearly were not very deep. I remember one early summer night, fairly cloudy sky partial moon and I was walking the battlefield, being parked at the monument and had wandered a ways away when all of a sudden the hair on my neck and arms rose up, I felt a sense of dread and chills and had a feeling of being watched and felt a presence and great anxiety, I quickly and with haste made it back to my utility vehicle and never again visited that location at any time other than full day light. It is a special place.
The only means to sovereignty is territory. Denying a peoples' sovereignty is usually not taken lying down.
Proud to say that I am a descendant of that tragedy, plus the Battle of Little Bighorn. Our last name was originally Redcherries but the government forced my grandfather to take up the last name Whitecrow. I sadly didn’t figure this out until I was 27, I turned 28 last year Dec 22. Tsitsistas and proud of my ancestors! 🤎✊🏾🟤
These narrations are great but I think that when mention is made of Indian captives, which were always women and children, the names of those captives should be given. For instance, at Sand Creek Black Kettle's village held Laura Roper who was about 16-17 years old. With Laura were Ambrose Asher, Danny Marble and Isabel Eubanks 7 or 8 and 4-5 years old respectively. Laura was subjected to gang rape and violent physical abuse by the squaws. Amazingly, she survived and lived quite a while. All of these captives were eventually returrned by Danny Marble died shortly after his return to authorities, likely from thyphoid fever. These same Cheyenne had only recently murdered, scalped and dismembered members of the Hungate family. These few named are only a drop in the bucket of innocent and typically unarmed people who were murdered by the Cheyenne and other plains tribes. People need to understand these are the typies of atrocities that inspired men like Chivington and later Custer, under Sheridan and Sherman, to do all they could, to decimate indian villages.
It was a pleasant surprise to get a reasoned and fair account of the events that took place at Sand Creek.
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I lived only a couple of miles from the sand creek massacre site! When I was about fourteen. I hunted all of that country, with 22s and a old 410 shotgun. Over the years I was caught having to cross the site in the late evening, about dusk. I always found that walking through this site, would make your skin crawl. My father was the manager of the Kiowa County Grazing Ass.
My Great great grandfather Charles Hall was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Colorado Calvary and served in the action at Sand Creek.
Been looking for a chanel like this one, thank you.
All this happened back in the dark days before Dale Carnegine wrote his best seller, "How to win friends and influence people'
Thank you for covering this incident in its proper context! THIS is an example of the stuff that "they don't teach you in school"!
Appreciate your efforts. Raised in Franktown learned of this entire event as a child from grandma. 30 some years later purchased a dry land farm close to sight on the big sandy. I understand skepticism but I’m pretty sure that land is haunted or something, very odd feeling amongst the grove and down in one of the gullies. The history of man is complicated business.
Fast becoming one of my favorite YT channels. Keep up the great work!
This telling makes the most sense to me. A real logical accounting!