Dedicated to all Cheyenne and Arapaho sisters and brothers

The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity in the Indian Wars
of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864,
when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked
and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho
encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing
and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians,
about two-thirds of whom were women and children.

The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life,
mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children.
Hardest hit by the massacre were the Wutapai, Black Kettle's band.
Perhaps half of the Hevhaitaniu were lost, including the chiefs
Yellow Wolf and Big Man. The Oivimana led by War Bonnet,
lost about half their number. There were heavy losses
to the Hisiometanio (Ridge Men) under White Antelope.
Chief One Eye was also killed, along with many of his band.
The Suhtai clan and the Heviqxnipahis clan under chief
Sand Hill experienced relatively few losses.
The Dog Soldiers and the Masikota, who by that time had allied,
were not present at Sand Creek.....

I saw the bodies of those lying there cut all to pieces,
worse mutilated than any I ever saw before;
the women cut all to pieces ... With knives; scalped;
their brains knocked out; children two or three months old;
all ages lying there, from sucking infants up to warriors.
By whom were they mutilated? By the United States troops!
(John S. Smith, Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith, 1865)

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians!
I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right
and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.
(Col. John Milton Chivington, U.S. Army)

:-( :-( :-( John Chivington is in MY EYES a mass murderer

My candle burn again and my prayers going up

A`ho

~Wolfgang~