***Hey, while we are at it, why don’t we get into Sand Creek to paint all whites in a negative manner?****
Because I will be on your case proving the Indians there were bloodthirsty murderers.
In winter they made peace with the Whites. In spring they went on the warpath, year after year. When the “peaceful” Indians at Sand Creek were killed there was found amongst them many “scalps of white men and boys so fresh they had not been tanned” and blankets fringed with the scalps of white women. Furthermore, the message sent to the US military from the Indians wishing peace, showed they were actually hostiles.
Read Massacres of the Mountains by J P Dunn Jr.
You will get an iconclast view of Sand Creek, the Washita, Meeker Massacre, the Whitman Massacre and Mountain Meadows.
There were old men at Sand Creek - the warriors were elsewhere. A couple of the militia groups refused the order to attack. It was a massacre, no matter how some spin it.