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PARK OPEN DAILY
The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is now open daily, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. These hourse will remain in effect throughout the summer and fall. The park will switch to winter hours beginning December 1, 2012.
The Sand Creek Massacre - 8 Hours that would change the Great Plains forever
The Sand Creek Massacre: profound, symbolic, spiritual, controversial, a site unlike any other in America.
As 650 cavalrymen came around a prairie bend - the camps of Chiefs Black Kettle, White Antelope, Left Hand and others lay in the valley before them. Chaotic, horrific, tumultuous, and bloody, the events of November 29, 1864 would change the course of American history.
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A place of Chiefs - then and now
Sand Creek has always been a place for Chiefs. Here, the late Cheyenne Chief Laird Cometsevah and wife Colleen visit the site.
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A rare site - water in Sand Creek!
Sand Creek or the Big Sandy crosses six eastern Colorado counties before emptying into the Arkansas east of Lamar, Co.
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A story to remember, always!
Rangers at the site are charged with the difficult, but important task of preserving the history of the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Did You Know?
The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is visited by people from throughout the region, nation, and world. The site's challenging and unique story provides for many special commemorative and educational opportunities.