Massacre of Sand Creek
The massacre of Sand Creek is an incident in the Indian Guerres of the the United States which occurred the November 29th 1864, when the militia of territory of the Colorado attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho camped on the Eastern plains.
Colonel John Chivington and his 700 riders attacked the Indian camp which counted 500 people, warriors but also women, old men and children. At the end of the engagements between 150 and 184 Indians had been massacred, the American soldiers 15 had killed and 50 wounded.
The violence of the massacre involved a handing-over in question of the American policy of extermination of the Amerindians.
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