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Marking 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre, the deadliest day in Colorado history
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Marking 160 years since the Sand Creek Massacre, the deadliest day in Colorado history

By Spencer Kristensen | Fox 31 News Friday marks 160 years since Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre, where U.S. soldiers attacked a camp of indigenous people, mostly women and children, killing hundreds. On Nov. 19, 1864, what has become known as the “deadliest day in Colorado history,” more than 200 innocent people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers in an attack on the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. Most of those killed were women, children and the elderly, according to the National Park Service, and hundreds more had to flee north in search of safety. READ THE FILL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Boulder to share its tie to Sand Creek Massacre, the deadliest day in state history
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Boulder to share its tie to Sand Creek Massacre, the deadliest day in state history

By Anna Alejo | CBS Colorado It was the deadliest day in Colorado history: November 29, 1864 - the Sand Creek Massacre. More than 230 people -- mostly women, children and elders from the Arapaho and Cheyenne nations were killed near Eads in the Eastern Plains. The City of Boulder is working with the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes to recognize Boulder's connection to the tragedy. The city-owned open space northeast of Boulder, near 63rd Street and Andrus Road, is where Fort Chambers likely stood.  The structure built of sod in the summer of 1864 was used to train a volunteer militia. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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