Kelman Discusses 'A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek' Thursday, November 13
SALISBURY, MD---In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, volunteer regiments surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in the southeastern Colorado Territory.
More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority women, children and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history.
Dr. Ari Kelman, author and McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, discusses the violent incident during the presentation “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek” 7 p.m. Thursday, November 13, at 小蓝视频, in Perdue Hall’s Bennett Family Auditorium.
His talk is part of SU’s Bellavance Honors Program Lecture Series a