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Mind Map by livmills97, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by livmills97
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The Sand Creek
Massacre
- Happened on the 29th
of November 1864.
- Colonel Chivington was a hardliner
(wants to kill all Indians).
- Colonel Chivington's famous
saying - "Nits Breed lice"
- Chivington ignored the peace
offers from Black Kettle.
- Attacked at dawn and killed at
least 163 Cheyennes of whom 110
were women and children.
- Indians were killed and their
bodies were mutilated.
- Prisoners were shown to white theatre
audiences with the scalps of their dead.
- The massacre was not
welcomed by the East.
- Chivington left the army to
avoid a court martial.
- Black Kettle managed to
escaped the massacre.
- Consequences
of Sand Creek
- Indians went on the war path
and attacked more settlers.
- Hostilities
spread
Eastwards.
- Indians went on the war path
and attacked more settlers.
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