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To: higgmeister

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/massacre/sandcreek.html


1,092 posted on 05/07/2007 3:05:35 PM PDT by Netizen (If we can't locate/deport illegals, how will we get them to come forward to pay their $3,250 fines?)
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To: Netizen
The Sand Creek Massacre

If you are trying to say that the Methodist church Massacred Indians you are wrong.

I live on former Cherokee land. The Five Civilized Tribes were hunted down and force marched to Oklahoma even after The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in "Worcester v. Georgia" that the Cherokee Nation was entitled to U.S. Federal protection from the actions of individual states. The Rev. Worcester was a missionary to the Cherokee and went to prison with other missionaries in order to bring the case to the Supreme Court. There were Moravians, Presbyterians and Methodists that attempted to prevent the injustices to the Native Americans.

In the same way "The Sand Creek Massacre" was perpetrated by the the U.S. Army. When the War between the states broke out the Colorado territorial governor offered Chivington a chaplain commission but he refused it, saying he wanted to fight. He became a Major in the 1st Colorado Volunteers. That indicates that he no longer represented the Methodist Church.

There were Methodists on both sides of the Civil War, just as there were Methodists on both sides of the Manifest Destiny driven suppression of the Indians.

1,149 posted on 05/07/2007 9:52:36 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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