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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

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Description for A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek Paperback. On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized." Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674503786
SKU
V9780674503786
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About Ari Kelman
Ari Kelman is Chancellor's Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews for A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
A Misplaced Massacre…recounts and analyses the ways in which generations of Americans, both white and Native American, have struggled—and as the book’s subtitle intimates, still struggle—to come to terms with the meaning of the attack. It is an important book, and its most brilliant chapter, which follows the order of events at the opening ceremonies, in April 2007, of the ... Read more

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