Summary Of The Massacre Of Sand Creek

The Massacre of Sand Creek is a tragedy that occurred due to the greed of American’s. American’s have been trying to take away the Indian American’s land for years to expand the United States and it isn’t new for American’s to burst in on the Indian’s territory and remove their rights. This isn’t the first time the American’s have taken control of the Indian’s land for the purpose of pursuing something that is on or in their lands, such as gold in the Rocky Mountains. This gold found in the mountains of Colorado in 1858 caused American’s to feel that they had the right to push the Indian’s out of their territory, take over, and mine their gold. After several events of the Indian’s fighting for their land a treaty was made, revoked, and rewritten. Although the new treaty didn’t give Indian’s back all of their land it was supposed to create peace between them and the American’s. Sadly, not everyone must have been
In the article there are four sections, but for this paper I will only be discussing the first section as it focuses on the journey of the army that attacked the Indian’s and how this American views what happened at Sand Creek. The first section starts with the man who is writing this describing how there has been a recent battle including the volunteers up in Colorado and says that this battle that has occurred and will occur will make history. This man seems to be a writer who is tagging along to observe and record the story of the battle between the American’s and Indian’s. He shares his opinions and doubts that there are very few of them and doesn’t expect anyone who is fighting to see the results. Although he believes the volunteers will not live to tell the tale he believes history will write itself and will attract an audience to read about the “facts” of what happened at Sand