First published as a report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians, 38th Congress, Second Session, Washington, 1965 [i.e. 1865]; and report of the Secretary of War, 39th Congress, Second Session, Senate Executive Document no. 26, Washington, 1867. The edition includes the reply of Governor Evans of the Territory of Colorado, 1865.
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.
The main character in this novel is fictional, but much of the novel is based on actual historical people and events.
Indeed, labeling it a “battle” or a “massacre” will likely start an argument before any discussion on the merits even begins. Even questions about who owns the story, and how it should be told, are up for debate.
Blood at Sand Creek reaches conclusions that will surprise some. Using rare documents, sworn affidavits, and military records, historian Bob Scott reexamines the fateful battle.
Ibid., 278—81. 15. Ibid., 281—82. 16. Ibid., 222—31. 17. Interviews cited in Wegman-French and Whitacre, "Sand Creek Massacre Site (Interim Report No. 3),” 13—17. APPENDIX A 1. Logan, Cartridges; Barnes, Cartridges of the World, 364. 2.
Originally published: Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1865.
This book will be a valuable resource to cultural anthropologists, rhetoric and communication studies scholars, American Indian studies scholars, peace studies and conflict resolution scholars, historians, as well as critical theory and ...
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the massacres by survivors and soldiers *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents On the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led 700 militiamen in a ...
Perhaps those were merely coincidences, but the question also remains of how the Methodist Episcopal Church itself responded to the massacre. Was it also somehow culpable in what happened? It is time for this story to be told.
Mochi’s War explores this story and its repercussions into the last part of the nineteenth Century from the perspective of a Cheyenne woman whose determination swept her into some of the most dramatic and heartbreaking moments in the ...