Chaotic, horrific, tumultuous and bloody, the events of November 29, 1864, changed the course of history. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site commemorates the brutal attack on a village of about 700 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people along Sand Creek in Colorado.
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site commemorates the November 29, 1864, attack on a village of about 700 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people along Sand Creek (Big Sandy Creek and Sand Creek refer to the same drainage and are synonymous terms) in southeastern Colorado Territory, about 170 miles southeast of Denver. At dawn, approximately 675 soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Regiments, Colorado Volunteer (U.S.) Cavalry, killed more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho over the course of seven hours.
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