Yeah, inquests like those we have today into Chris Dodd's Countrywide dealings? There is way too much evidence that warriors were not in the camp and that many soldiers refused to engage in the massacre. It was a massacre, pure and simple - and wrong.
***It was a massacre, pure and simple - and wrong.***
I used to feel the same way, until I got hold of writings of people living at that time. They told a completely different story of what is popularly distributed today. I found more about the shear brutality of the Indians, from Montana to Mexico than most people who get their history from TV have ever known!
The Sand Creek camp had lots of items and goods taken from slain white families . Fresh scalps of men, women and children brutally murdered the these heathern savages!
As for the claim that the men were out hunting, which can be proven wrong as there was a brutal snowstorm at the time which would have sent the buffalo down into the Texas panhandle area, a long way from Sand Creek. Furthermore, if they had been hunting the women and children would have been with them as hunting was men’s work, cutting up the kill was women’s work! Learn a little bit about the Indian buffalo hunts! Criminy!
Furthermore, when CHIVINGTON (the officer who turned the Confederate advance into New Mexico at Glorieta Pass by doing the impossible), attacked the camp of these KNOWN HOSTILES, he did not demand a head count to see who was men and women bundled up against the cold.
Civington years later gave a speach before the Old Pioneers in Colorado. The public there LOVED HIM! His last words of his speech, detailing all that led up to Sand Creek, were..”I STAND BY SAND CREEK!”
The crowd of people went wild with applause and cheering.
Now you need to see what REALLY led up to the Washita battle! It is an eye opener, certanly not what you learned from TV!