As the later 1800s progressed, the Indian wars began to wane. This was largely due to the attrition of years of battle, along with disease and compulsor.
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.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an expansion Wednesday of a National Park Service historical site dedicated to t he massacre by U.S. troops of more than 200 Native Americans in