The Fighting Parson’s Fallout

For many American Indians, events of the past—even the distant past—are as real and present as something that occurred yesterday. The Sand Creek Massacre is one of those. For one church denomination, that long-ago tragedy still resonates today. On November 29, 1864, some 700 Colorado militia attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho camp. An estimated 150 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women, children and old men, were killed. Soldiers mutilated the dead and took some body parts as “troph