Would be somewhat ironic.
Chivington got a bad rap for Sand Creek. He captured Confederate agents, who were tribal members in the camp, found fresh white scalps that had not been stretched on hoops, and a blanket fringed with the scalps of white women.
The Confederate agents were there to make sure the tribe went on the war path the next year.
There were other “massacres” which were far worse. This one is remembered only because some upper-crust BOSTONIANS took it up as a cause.