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 ...

Summary "At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos--primarily women, children, and ...

Governor John Hickenlooper apologized to the descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre on the 150th anniversary, in 2014.

The soldiers were commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington to attack a village of about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho along the Sand Creek River in Colorado.

Friday, Nov. 29, marks 160 years since the Sand Creek bloodshed, and the pain of the tragedy still haunts descendants of those who were slain and those who escaped.

SAND CREEK MASSACRE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE — An icy breeze blows up the Sand Creek Valley 180 miles southeast of Denver, rustling short grass on the barren plain and rattling branches on the few ...

In 2008 the United Methodist Church agreed to donate $50,000 to Sand Creek for the role that territorial governor John Evans and Chivington, both members of the church, played in the massacre.

My concern is that some travelers do not understand that the massacre was not performed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, but by the Colorado Volunteers under command of Col. John Chivington.

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.

“The soldiers complained to (U.S. Army Col John) Chivington about not being engaged,” said Alex Rose, a guide at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper.

The Colorado House and Senate approve a memorial for the Sand Creek Massacre, but representatives of the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes say they were not involved.