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Every school child in Colorado is taught about the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. On a wintry day in November of that year, an untrained and undisciplined territorial militia attacked an Indian camp near the eastern border of the territory leaving 150 to 200 dead. The tragedy has long been the subject of roiling debate about who or what was to blame. When the History Colorado Center opened a new exhibit on the event in 2012, visitors were offered competing perspectives of Indian, soldier, and settler. The exhibit was immediately assailed by native activists for not taking an exclusively “indigenous...

Most people call what happened that day in 1864 a massacre. But a firsthand account from a soldier simply calls it war. This morning in a grassy valley in eastern Colorado, members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and officials from the National Park Service will formally dedicate the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. At the same time, the Old Colorado City Historical Society will rerelease an out-of-print book that argues that the massacre wasn’t a massacre at all. “I realize even suggesting that isn’t very popular, but things aren’t as simple as they are made out to be,”...

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