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Future of Amache National Historic Site to be discussed in Denver, Arvada, elsewhere

As winter winds blow snow across Eastern Colorado’s High Plains where I grew up, I think again about Sand Creek and the November 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho who thought they were safe in cam...

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The site commemorates the November 1864 assault by U.S. soldiers on an encampment of approximately 750 Native people. During the attack, the Native Americans took shelter in the high banks along Sand Creek. As they fled, many were wounded and killed. Well over half of the 230 dead were women and children.  

'We will never forget the hundreds of lives that were brutally taken here,' says Interior Secretary Deb Haaland - Anadolu Agency

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that the U.S. purchased nearly 3,500 acres of land near the Sand Creek Massacre site in Colorado.

Site in Sand Creek, Colorado memorialises the massacre of more than 230 Native Americans by US soldiers in 1864.The United States government has said

Site in Sand Creek, Colorado memorialises the massacre of more than 230 Native Americans by US soldiers in 1864.