Saturday marks the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre and is, as Prof Ned Blackhawk makes clear, an example of the kind of violence that was directed towards Native Americans during the U.S. Civil War by the Union Army. Sand Creek, Bear River and the Long Walk remain important parts of the Civil War and of American history. But in our popular narrative, the Civil War obscures such campaigns against American Indians. In fact, the war made such violence possible: The paltry Union Army of 1858, before its wartime expansion, could not have attacked, let alone removed, the fortified Navajo communities in the Four Corners, while Southern secession gave a powerful impetus to expand American territory westward. mobile.nytimes/2014/11/28/opinion/remember-the-sand-creek-massacre.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1&referrer
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 06:42:20 +0000
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