Battle of Sand Creek

On November 29, 1864, a cavalry brutally attacked a camp of Indians. These Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians were nearly harmless considering most of the people killed were women and children. They did not deserve to be brutalized and attacked without warning. The Cavalry attacked and many people ran as they were in their homes when the event started. Most men stayed and fought with arrows, and a few with guns, therefore they did not do much damage …

…is obvious that there was really no reason to attack the Indians at Sand Creek so harshly. They should have stopped when the flag was raised showing that the Indians did not have any problems with them. They just wanted to be left alone. WORKS CITED: Bent, George. Forty Years with the Cheyennes. 1905. Perrigo, Lynn I. E. Major Hal Sayr's Diary of the Sand Creek Campaign. 1938. Powell, Father Peter John. People of the Sacred Mountain. 1917.