{"id":835,"date":"2012-07-21T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2012-07-24T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:49:26","slug":"aurora-todays-sand-creek-massacre-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/aurora-todays-sand-creek-massacre-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"AURORA TODAY\u2019S SAND CREEK MASSACRE 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MNN.\u00a0 July 21, 2012.\u00a0 The Aurora theatre killer, James Holmes, grew up in San Diego California.\u00a0 His mother sent him to Denver to study for his Phd in neuroscience.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Americans are horrified about the chaotic, horrific, tumultuous and bloody mass murders in the movie theatre showing \u201cDark Night Rises\u201d.\u00a0 Yet they live unconcerned over the top of our graves. This hemisphere is soaked in our people\u2019s blood, all killed by psychotic mass murderers.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aurora is 100 miles from the site of the Sand Creek massacre, November 29, 1864.\u00a0 Old Denver families were behind this mass murder of Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women and children.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the spring of 1864 the Cheyenne and Arapaho were ready for peace.\u00a0 They met with US Officers, Evans and Chivington, at Camp Weld outside of Denver.\u00a0 No treaties were signed.\u00a0 The Indians were offered a sanctuary at Fort Lyon.\u00a0 Black Kettle and over 500 Cheyenne and Arapaho travelled south to set up camp on Sand Creek, near Eads, the town later built on top of the massacre site.\u00a0 Some dissenters headed north to join the Sioux.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

General Samuel Curtis sent a telegram, \u201cI want no peace till the Indians suffer more\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>700 Cavalry volunteers called \u201c100 Dazers\u201d, assembled in Denver.\u00a0 The camps of Chief Black Kettle, White Antelope, Left Hand and others, lay in the valley before them. \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Chivington, with mostly drunken troops, headed to Sand Creek with 4 Howitzers.\u00a0 \u00a0Black Kettle raised both flags of peace.\u00a0 Chivington raised his arm for attack.\u00a0 \u00a0Cannon and rifles pounded the camp.\u00a0 The Indians scattered.\u00a0 The frenzied soldiers hunted down and murdered the men, women and children.\u00a0\u00a0 A few warriors managed to fight back.\u00a0 Silas Soule of Massachussets did not allow his soldiers to fire into the crowd.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Troops continued the murders all day.\u00a0 One bragged about killing 3 women and 5 children who were screaming for mercy.\u00a0 They murdered all the wounded, mutilated and scalped them.\u00a0 They cut open the pregnant women\u2019s bellies and laid the fetus on the bodies.\u00a0 They plundered tipis and divided up the herd of horses.\u00a0 Black Kettle\u2019s wife was shot 9 times and survived.\u00a0 The Cheyenne Dog Warriors who opposed the peace treaty provided sanctuary for the survivors.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Colorado volunteers returned to Denver as heroes, with scalps of women and children. \u00a0Colorado residents celebrated.\u00a0 Chivington appeared on a Denver stage telling war stories and displayed 100 Indigenous scalps, including pubic hair of women.\u00a0 Many of the elite of Denver society today are the children of these murderers.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eye witnesses came forward and reported the murders.\u00a0\u00a0 Silas Soule testified against Chivington, and was murdered by Charles Squires.\u00a0 It was found to be a carefully planned massacre.\u00a0 Asked why kids were killed, \u201cNits make lice\u201d, said Chivington.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As word of the massacre spread, the Indigenous resistance to white expansion stiffened.\u00a0 This massacre led to the Little Big Horn battle on June 25-6, 1876 where General George Custer and his men were wiped out by the Lakota lead by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In December 29, 1890, the US 7th<\/sup> Cavalry commanded by Samuel M. Whitside lead the massacre of over 350 Lakota at Wounded Knee Creek.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have had to live with these horrors since the arrival of the invaders, while they send their \u201ccry babies\u201d to doctors for counselling. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That mindset to slaughter people was brought here.\u00a0 80 are shot and killed daily in the US, not counting stabbings and death by other means. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orders always come from the top.\u00a0 On December 26, 1862 Lincoln sanctioned the hanging of 38 randomly picked Indian men and boys without trial, the largest mass hanging in US history.\u00a0 One week later, January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves.\u00a0 The Blacks then formed the regiment called the Buffalo Soldiers who proudly massacred the Indigenous for their masters.\u00a0 Today both races celebrate their plunder with medals and the theft of our land.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was James Holmes trying to mimic the mindset of those Denver people? If he is insane, then Washington, Grant and Lincoln, and all the other presidents who gave orders to totally annihilate us, are all insane as well. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Americans must be reminded of this continuing genocide.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t know their history, it is bound to repeat itself.\u00a0 The lesson is: be careful what you ask for,\u00a0 you might just get it.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The movie-goers went to the theatre to see murder, death, chaos and plunder.\u00a0 Then they got it for real!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As Bob Marley sang about, \u201cBuffalo soldier, dread-lock rasta.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MNN Mohawk Nation News <\/em>kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to <\/em>www.mohawknationnews.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 More stories at MNN Archives.\u00a0 Address:\u00a0 Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0<\/em><\/p>\n

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