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The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,(3) killing and mutilating an estimated 70-163 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.

It was the US army's killing of about 150 cheyenne elderly, women and children at the Sand Creek Reservation in Colorado territory.   It was  a700-man force. militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho; killing and mutilating an estimated 70-163 Indians

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