| November 29, 1864 A U.S. Army cavalry regiment under Colonel J. M. Chivington (a Methodist missionary and candidate for Congress), acting on orders from Colorado’s Governor, John Evans, and ignoring a white surrender flag flying just below a U.S. flag, attacked sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, killing nearly 500, in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. Captain Silas Soule, however, not only refused to follow Chivington’s lead at Sand Creek, but ordered his troops not to participate in the attack. The Indians, led by Black Kettle, had been ordered away from Fort Lyon four days before, with the promise that they would be safe. Virtually all of the victims, mostly women and children, were tortured and scalped; many women, including the pregnant, were mutilated. Nine of 900 cavalrymen were killed. A local newspaper called this “a brilliant feat of arms,” and stated the soldiers had “covered themselves with glory.” At first, Chivington was widely praised for his “victory” at the Battle of Sand Creek, and he and his troops were honored with a parade in Denver. However, rumors of drunken soldiers butchering unarmed women and children began to circulate, and Congress ordered a formal investigation of the massacre. Chivington was eventually threatened with court martial by the U.S. Army, but as he had already left his military post, no criminal charges were ever filed against him Eyewitness Congressional testimony of John S. Smith, a white Indian agent and interpreter   Two different paintings of the Sand Creek Massacre |
November 29, 1963 Earl Warren and LBJ U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More about The Warren Commission |
| November 29, 1967 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation during the Vietnam War.  Robert McNamara The Fog of War a movie about the Vietnam War |
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I enjoy these peace & justice posts. But the Sand Creek Massacre sickens me. So f’ng infuriating that people — especially men, and too unfortunatley often, CHRISTIAN men — behave this way and defend themselves as being noble and honorable.
But he was cruel and hateful. From Wikipedia: “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. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.”
— Col. John Milton Chivington
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It is, indeed, enraging and embarrassing how Native Americans were treated in earlier days (and now, too.) It’s difficult to explain to kiddoes, as well. It doesn’t seem as if it could be possible for people to justify these massacres, even in earlier times.
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