The Colorado Militia attacks a Cheyenne and…
November 1864 CE
The Colorado Militia attacks a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment under Chief Black Kettle on November 29, 1864, at Sand Creek (where they had been given permission to camp), although it flies a flag of truce and indicates its allegiance to the U.S. government.
The Sand Creek massacre, as it is known, results in the death of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred Cheyenne, mostly unarmed women and children.
Many of the dead are subsequently mutilated.
Chivington boasts that he has surpassed Carson and will soon be known as the great Indian killer.
Carson expresses outrage at the massacre and openly denounces Chivington's actions.
The survivors flee northeast and join the camps of the Cheyenne on the Smokey Hill and Republican rivers, where warriors will smoke the war pipe, passing it from camp to camp among the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho.
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