A petition is asking people to support removing a statue in front of the Colorado state capitol building, claiming it memorializes John Chivington, a Civil War-era colonel who led the Sand Creek ...
The runners gathered just after dawn Sunday on Monument Hill. The day before, on the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, more than 500 descendents of the massacre and other tribal members ...
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's ...
At dawn on November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led more than 600 volunteers and troops with the First and Third Colorado Regiments on a violent raid of a peaceful village of Cheyenne and ...
Which way? Whose way? -- The road to dominion -- The bitter conundrum -- Methodists and the American Indian -- John Milton Chivington: the fighting parson -- John Evans, M.D.: entrepreneur and ...
The site sits hundreds of miles from any major city. There are no statues to admire, no gift shops to buy postcards, and no cheery activities for the kids. To get there, one must drive through hours ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Friday marks 160 years since ...
Colorado lawmakers on Monday gave unanimous approval to a resolution on the design and location for a memorial to honor the victims of the Sand Creek massacre. The project has been decades in the ...
CASPER — The soldiers ignominiously known as the “bloodless third” had not seen the action promised to them when they enlisted nearly 100 days earlier in the summer of 1864. The recruiting posters in ...
Regarding the signage for the Sand Creek Massacre Trail, the signs use the term "massacre" and include a graphic of an Indigenous male. My concern is that some travelers do not understand that the ...