SAND CREEK MASSACRE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Colorado (AP) --
More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred
150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act
of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated
Saturday.
The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic site, 160
miles southeast of Denver on Big Sandy Creek in Kiowa County, pays
tribute to those killed in the November 29, 1864, attack.
Seeking revenge for the killings of several settlers by Indians, 700 militia
members slaughtered nearly everyone in the village. Most were women or
children.
Descendants of some of the victims were among several
hundred people at Saturday's dedication on the rolling hills of the
southeastern Colorado plains. A mock village of a dozen tepees was set
up in a grove of cottonwood trees along the creek that historians
believe marks the site of the killings.
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