"I hear the the buffalo" shouted the woman. But she was wrong:
At Sand Creek on November 29, 1864, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on the huts at Sand Creek Colorado.
Black Kettle and his band, who had been told they would be safe on this desolate reservation. Two hundred Cheyenne men, women and children were slaughtered.
Their corpses often grotesquely mutilated, in a massacre that shocked the nation.
Many bodies were taken into Denver and displayed on the street.
This story caused me to weep as I worked on it. It is an ugly stain on our state