The Sand Creek Massacre

When I walk at Sand Creek today, I step carefully.
My size ten and a halves sink into the sand. Where there is grass or plants, Canadian thistle or tamarisk or sage or some other one of the numerous types of grass and plants at Sand Creek, it catches my clod hoppers, just before they sink [...]

The Sand Creek Massacre Witness Account:
One Story of Horror At Sand Creek Duncan Kerr, the scout, found the body of One Eye lying near the camp.
“Some of the boys had scalped him, ” Kerr wrote, “but they either did not understand how to take a scalp, or their knives were very dull, for they had [...]

 On November 29, 1864, 700 Colorado troops savagely slaughtered over 450 Cheyenne children, disabled, elders, and women in the southeastern Colorado Territory under its protection. This act became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. This film project (”Legends of the Great American West” documentary film project) is an examination of an open wound in the souls [...]