Useful Links
The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated on Native Americans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horrific-sand-creek-massacre-will-be-forgotten-no-more-180953403/
Established in 2007, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site sheds light on a chaotic, horrific, tumultuous, and bloody moment in American history and its enduring legacy.
https://www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/history
On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado Cavalry unit, acting on orders from Colorado’s governor John Evans and ignoring a white surrender flag flying just below a U.S. flag, brutally attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes including Chief Black Kettle in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sand-creek-colo-massacre
The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated on Native Americans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horrific-sand-creek-massacre-will-be-forgotten-no-more-180953403/
Established in 2007, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site sheds light on a chaotic, horrific, tumultuous, and bloody moment in American history and its enduring legacy.
https://www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/history
On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado Cavalry unit, acting on orders from Colorado’s governor John Evans and ignoring a white surrender flag flying just below a U.S. flag, brutally attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes including Chief Black Kettle in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sand-creek-colo-massacre
Primary Sources
Witness Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre
https://online.smc.edu/courses/16602/pages/primary-sources-the-sand-creek-massacre-1865
Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre
I. Two Editorials from the Rocky Mountain News (1864)
II. Congressional testimony by John S. Smith, an eyewitness to the massacre (1865)
III. Deposition by John M. Chivington (1865)
http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm
https://online.smc.edu/courses/16602/pages/primary-sources-the-sand-creek-massacre-1865
Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre
I. Two Editorials from the Rocky Mountain News (1864)
II. Congressional testimony by John S. Smith, an eyewitness to the massacre (1865)
III. Deposition by John M. Chivington (1865)
http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm
Lessons
Ben Binversie, “Sand Creek Massacre Lesson 1,” Native History Project
This lesson will situate the Sand Creek Massacre within the broader context of Native American history and the Civil War. This lesson will describe important events and treaties leading up to the Sand Creek Massacre. By showing how the Civil War and Sand Creek Massacre are not simply simultaneous events, but part of an intertwined process of westward expansion, this lesson will demonstrate how Native American history is U.S. history, and students will be able to understand the context and importance of the following lesson plans on the Massacre and its consequences for U.S.- Indian relations. As historian Ari Kelman says, "We remember the Civil War as a war of liberation that freed four million slaves. But it also became a war of conquest to destroy and dispossess Native Americans.” Sand Creek, he adds, “is a bloody and mostly forgotten link” between the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars that continued for 25 years after Appomattox." Included in this lesson are the Fort Laramie (link to the digital copy in Lesson Sources) and Fort Wise treaties, which can be used for analysis if students and teacher are already familiar with treaties. However, they are not essential to this lesson plan, but are included for your convenience.
https://native-history.sites.grinnell.edu/items/show/40.
Many students do not realize the extension of the Civil War and its impact on western settlement, and especially its impact on Native Americans. In Colorado, 1865, the US Cavalry attacked a peaceful settlement of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. In 2007, George W. Bush designated this massacre site a National Park and monument. It is one of the few dark episodes of American history that have been thus memorialized. The students will examine primary sources and the account of the incident to understand what happened here and evaluate whether it deserves a spot in our American memory.
https://hsp.org/education/landmark-lesson/memory-sand-creek-massacre
This lesson will situate the Sand Creek Massacre within the broader context of Native American history and the Civil War. This lesson will describe important events and treaties leading up to the Sand Creek Massacre. By showing how the Civil War and Sand Creek Massacre are not simply simultaneous events, but part of an intertwined process of westward expansion, this lesson will demonstrate how Native American history is U.S. history, and students will be able to understand the context and importance of the following lesson plans on the Massacre and its consequences for U.S.- Indian relations. As historian Ari Kelman says, "We remember the Civil War as a war of liberation that freed four million slaves. But it also became a war of conquest to destroy and dispossess Native Americans.” Sand Creek, he adds, “is a bloody and mostly forgotten link” between the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars that continued for 25 years after Appomattox." Included in this lesson are the Fort Laramie (link to the digital copy in Lesson Sources) and Fort Wise treaties, which can be used for analysis if students and teacher are already familiar with treaties. However, they are not essential to this lesson plan, but are included for your convenience.
https://native-history.sites.grinnell.edu/items/show/40.
Many students do not realize the extension of the Civil War and its impact on western settlement, and especially its impact on Native Americans. In Colorado, 1865, the US Cavalry attacked a peaceful settlement of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. In 2007, George W. Bush designated this massacre site a National Park and monument. It is one of the few dark episodes of American history that have been thus memorialized. The students will examine primary sources and the account of the incident to understand what happened here and evaluate whether it deserves a spot in our American memory.
https://hsp.org/education/landmark-lesson/memory-sand-creek-massacre
A lesson that considers Multiple Perspectives of the Massacre
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