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John Chivington
U.S. Army Colonel and Methodist minister. Commanded the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, ordering troops to attack a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp, killing approximately 230 people, mostly women, children, and elderly. Troops mutilated victims' bodies as trophies.
U.S. Army Colonel and Methodist minister. Commanded the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, ordering troops to attack a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp, killing approximately 230 people, mostly women, children, and elderly. Troops mutilated victims' bodies as trophies.
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Connected to 1 documented investigation
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George Armstrong Custer
Fellow US military officer who massacred Native Americans
Kit Carson
Fellow perpetrator of violence against Indigenous peoples
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1864
Commanded the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, ordering troops to attack a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp, killing approximately 230 people, mostly women, children, and elderly