Archive for 'Sand Creek Massacre Causes'
What Caused the Sand Creek Massacre?
by Donald L. Vasicek A General Chronology: 1. The breakout of the Indian Plains War of 1864 fueled by tribal skirmishes in Western Nebraska, which some believed, threatened the well being of Caucasians on the Plains. 2. In June of 1864 the Hungate family was brutally murdered by 4 Northern Arapaho Indians just miles outside [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2010 under documentary, Sand Creek Massacre Causes.
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Witness Accounts
“Captain Silas S. Soule/Lt. Joseph Cramer Letters” By Donald L. Vasicek On November 29, 1864, about 700 Colorado 1st & 3rd Regiment troops and troops from New Mexico, slaughtered over 400 (Sand Creek Massacre Descendant and Southern Cheynne Chief Laird (Whistling Eagle) Cometsevah gave filmmaker, Donald L. Vasicek this figure, basing it on what has [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2010 under documentary, Sand Creek Massacre Causes.
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