150 Years Later, A Formal Apology For The Sand Creek Massacre [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 12/16/1412:00 PM

A stretch of dry, empty prairie where the Sand Creek Massacre took place in Colorado has hardly changed in a century and a half.

Back in December 1864, America was still months from the end of the Civil War. Gen. William Sherman was making his infamous march across Georgia. And from the Western Frontier, word of the shocking Sand Creek Massacre was starting to trickle out. A regiment of volunteer troops in Colorado had attacked a peaceful camp of Native Americans, slaughtering nearly 200 of them — mostly women and children.

[For more of this story, written by Megan Verlee, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...-sand-creek-massacre]

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