U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

American writer, double Pulitzer Prize finalist, publishes 'There There', delving into the harsh past of Native Americans and ...

when Col. John Chivington led 700 Colorado cavalry troops into an eastern Colorado camp on Sand Creek occupied by sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho. With the warriors out on a hunt, the remaining ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Friday marks 160 years since Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre, where U.S. soldiers attacked a camp of indigenous people, mostly women and children, killing hundreds. On Nov. 29 ...

“Kill everything!” he ordered. “Nits make lice.” Col. John Chivington, the head of the Colorado military district, was another U.S. commander with a hatred for Indigenous people.

Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down upon. His designs stood in wild opposition to a part of the holiday ...

It is cold this late November morning, much as it was on Nov. 29, 1864. At dawn 160 years ago, Col. John Chivington led 700 cavalry troops in a surprise attack on peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho ...

1864 — The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been ...

In the heart of the room, the Cheyenne and Arapaho recount the events of Nov. 29, 1864, when a group of soldiers, led by Col. John Chivington, attacked their camp at Sand Creek at dawn ...

A 100-day volunteer cavalry was enacted that was led by Colonel John Chivington. In late November of 1864, Chivington and his cavalry killed over 187 Cheyenne and Arapahoe people in what is known ...

Evans resigned after Col. John Chivington led an 1864 U.S. cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people — most of them women, children and the elderly — at Sand Creek in what ...