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160 years ago today, the Sand Creek massacre, a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars, occurred. (en.wikipedia.org)

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A 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70 to over 600 Native American people.

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