In the 1860s, tensions in Colorado between American Indians and white settlers led to a massacre at

The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado in 1864, during rising conflict between Cheyenne and Arapaho people and white settlers. U.S. troops attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment at Sand Creek. Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn, and Pike’s Peak are not the massacre described.

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