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Michael Buchanan
Posted by Michael Buchanan
Mon, 28 November 2011
in Today In Crime History

November 29, 1864, Colorado Militia Murders More Than 100 Indian Women & Children - Today In Crime History

On this date, November 29, in the year 1864, a 750-man force of Colorado Territory militiamen attacked a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in the southeastern part of the Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 150–200 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.   These killings became known as the “Sand Creek Massacre”.

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