The US Army's Massacre of Innocents: Sand Creek - RE:WIRE

We talk one of the darkest and most under-taught chapters in American history: the Sand Creek Massacre. Here's a quick correction brought up by a user named Richard in the comments: Mochi is not the only Native American woman to be held as a POW by the United States. More info on that can be found here: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/... October 2022 Update: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and announced that the Nat'l Park Service will be expanding the site: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news... RE:WIRE Follow us on Twitter @rewiretube   / rewiretube   [email protected] Special thanks to the staff of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic site for script consultation and letting us film there! For further reading on Sand Creek, you can check out our bibliography below or grab a book from the historic site’s suggested reading list: https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/educat... Consider donating to the Sand Creek Massacre Foundation: https://www.sandcreekmassacrefoundati... Motion graphics by Perry Froelich MUSIC Original music by Jake Yergert Endings by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com BIBLIOGRAPHY “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek” by Ari Kelman “Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent” by David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E Masich “The Life of George Bent Written from His Letters” by George Bent and George E. Hyde “The Sand Creek Massacre” by Stan Hoig “Sand Creek: Tragedy and Symbol” by Gary Leland Roberts “Bent’s Fort” by David Lavender “The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices” by Bruce Cutler “Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” by David Trueur “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown “Bent’s Old Fort” by the Colorado Historical Society https://history.denverlibrary.org/col... https://www.battlefields.org/learn/ci... https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/news/h... https://www.history.com/news/native-a... https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.or... https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h... https://www.britannica.com/event/Sand... https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/a-ch... https://www.cpr.org/2014/12/04/hicken... https://www.nps.gov/sand/index.htm https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/histor... http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewe... https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/histor... https://www.cpr.org/2020/11/21/sand-c... https://indiancountrytoday.com/archiv... https://www.nps.gov/people/edward-wyn... https://www.denverpost.com/2013/08/27.... https://www.denverpost.com/2014/12/03... https://www.kclonewolf.com/History/Sa... https://www.firstpeople.us/native-ame... https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-c... https://www.kclonewolf.com/History/Sa... https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/... https://www.kclonewolf.com/History/Sa... https://www.historycolorado.org/locat... https://www.westword.com/news/history... 0:00 Prologue 2:40 Chapter I: George 8:55 Chapter II: Chivington 13:36 Chapter III: An Ambush of Innocents 18:39 Chapter IV: Nothing Lives Long 25:30 Chapter V: Dog Soldiers 30:20 Chapter VI: A Century and a Half Later