A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

An award-winning account of the Sand Creek Massacre that killed hundreds of Native Americans and brutally reshaped the Colorado Territory.

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory...