A Misplaced Massacre (Hardcover)

from rivkat

History of the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, in which many Native Americans were slaughtered by Union forces during the Civil War. The history is interspersed with contemporary disputes about how to memorialize the massacre-for decades it was a "battle"-and a lot of detail about the complex po...

from DarthDeverell

In A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, Ari Kelman argues, “For Native people gazing east from the banks of Sand Creek, the Civil War, looked like a war of empire, a contest to control expansion into the West, rather than a war of liberation. The massacre, then, should ...