A Misplaced Massacre : : Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek / / Ari Kelman.
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in sou...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 halftones, 7 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 A Perfect Mob -- 2 Looters -- 3 The Smoking Gun -- 4 Accurate but Not Precise -- 5 Indelible Infamy -- 6 You Can't Carve Things in Stone -- Epilogue: When Is Enough Enough? -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly at the 2007 opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. This site opened after a long and remarkably contentious planning process. Native Americans, Colorado ranchers, scholars, Park Service employees, and politicians alternately argued and allied with one another around the question of whether the nation's crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. Ari Kelman unearths the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, as well as those who grappled with its troubling legacy, to reveal how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U.S. Civil War left enduring national scars. Combining painstaking research with storytelling worthy of a novel, A Misplaced Massacre probes the intersection of history and memory, laying bare the ways differing groups of Americans come to know a shared past. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674067172 9783110317350 9783110317121 9783110317114 9783110374889 9783110374902 9783110442205 9783110459517 9783110662566 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674067172 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ari Kelman. |