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Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy

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Sand Creek. At break of day on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos-primarily women, children, and elderly-camped under the protection of the U. S. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory and flying both an American flag and a white flag. The Sand Creek massacre seized national attention in the winter of 1864-1865 and generated a controversy that still excites heated debate more than 150 years later. At Sand Creek demoniac forces seemed unloosed so completely that humanity itself Used to be the casualty. That Used to be the charge that drew public attention to the Colorado frontier in 1865. That Used to be the claim that spawned heated debate in Congress, two congressional hearings, and a military commission. Westerners vociferously and passionately denied the accusations. Reformers seized the charges as evidence of the failure of American Indian policy. Sand Creek launched a war that Used to be not actually over for fifteen years. In the first year alone, it cost the US government $50,000,000. Methodists have a special stake in this story. The governor whose polices led the Cheyennes and Arapahos to Sand Creek Used to be a prominent Methodist layman. Colonel Chivington Used to be a Methodist minister. Perhaps those were merely coincidences, but the question also remains of how the Methodist Episcopal Church itself responded to the massacre. Used to be it also in some way culpable in what happened? It’s time for this story to learn. Coming to grips with what happened at Sand Creek involves hard questions and unsatisfactory answers not only about what happened but also about what led to it and why. It stirs ancient questions about the most efficient and worst in each and every person, questions older than history, questions as relevant as today’s headlines, questions we all will have to answer from within.

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