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Sand Creek massacre site wins historic designation
Tribal elders recall the crying of murdered children as Congress designates the Sand Creek site near Chivington Colorado as a national historic site. A 1864 dawn raid led by Col. John M. Chivington killed more than 150 Cheyennes and Arapahos, mostly women and children, shaping Western history and federal relations with tribes.
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