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Arapaho Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Arapaho, 1957

 File
Identifier: M060.02.0012.0010

Raymond G. Carey Collection on Sand Creek Massacre

 Collection
Identifier: M045
Abstract Raymond Carey (1901-1972), professor of history at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado from 1945 to 1971, conducted research on the massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado, which took place on November 29, 1864. In this incident, the troops of the Colorado Third Volunteer Regiment, commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington, attacked a group of 500 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians who were encamped on the banks of the Sand Creek, about 40 miles from Fort Lyon, near the present-day town of Lamar....
Dates: 1950-1971