A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
- ISBN-10
- 0674067177
- ISBN-13
- 9780674067172
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-02-11
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Ari Kelman
Description
On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized.
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