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Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy - Gary L. Roberts - Gary L. Roberts


Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy - Gary L. Roberts
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Sand Creek.
It stirs ancient questions about the best and worst in every person, questions older than history, questions as relevant as today\'s headlines, questions we all must answer from within..
Coming to grips with what happened at Sand Creek involves hard questions and unsatisfactory answers not only about what happened but also about what led to it and why.
Was it also somehow culpable in what happened? It is time for this story to be told.
Perhaps those Were merely coincidences, but the question also remains of how the Methodist Episcopal Church itself responded to the massacre.
Colonel Chivington was a Methodist minister.
The governor whose polices led the Cheyennes and Arapahos to Sand Creek was a prominent Methodist layman.
Methodists have a special stake in this story.
In the first year alone, it cost the United States government $50,000,000.
Sand Creek launched a war that was not truly over for fifteen years.
Reformers seized the charges as evidence of the failure of American Indian policy.
Westerners vociferously and passionately denied the accusations.
That was the claim that spawned heated debate in Congress, two congressional hearings, and a military commission.
That was the charge that drew public attention to the Colorado frontier in 1865.
At Sand Creek demoniac forces seemed unloosed so completely that humanity itself was the casualty.
The Sand Creek Massacre seized national attention in the winter of 1864-1865 and generated a controversy that still excites heated debate more than 150 years later. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory and flying both an American flag and a white flag.
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At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos--primarily women, children, and elderly--camped under the protection of the U.
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