Sand Creek Massacre...?

Question

I am doing a presentation on the Sand Creek Massacre and I was wondering what song would go good with the subject....I want a relating song playing in the backround of my powerpoint...any ideas?

Answer 1

'the world turned upside down' or the background music in Dances with Wolves near the end of the movie...

Answer 2

I was gonna suggest "Garry Owen," the Seventh Cavalry's regimental song, but then I remembered this one was Chivington, not Custer... (I was thinking of the Washita River Massacre, duh!)

How about "Halfbreed," by Cher? Or "Indian Reservation," by Paul Revere and the Raiders? Those would both be in very poor taste.

If you can find some authentic Cherokee and Arapahoe music of the era, that would be cool.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Use drums and orchestration, symphonic, classical-type music. Not flutes. Many native people believe that the use of flutes and native music without their permission is a form of genocide. Get their permission first!

Answer 4

Nov. 29, 1864) Surprise attack by U.S. troops on a Cheyenne camp. A force of 1,200 men, mostly Colorado volunteers under Col. John M. Chivington, attacked several hundred Cheyenne camped on Sand Creek near Fort Lyon in southeastern Colorado Territory. The Indians had been conducting peace negotiations with the fort's commander; when the attack began, they raised a white flag, but the troops continued to attack, massacring more than 200 of them. The slayings led to the Plains Indian wars. BackgroundBy the terms of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, between the United States and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes,[1] the Cheyenne and Arapaho were recognized to hold a vast territory encompassing the lands between the North Platte River and Arkansas River and eastward from the Rocky Mountains to western Kansas. This area included present-day southeastern Wyoming, southwestern Nebraska, most of eastern Colorado, and the westernmost portions of Kansas.[2] However, the discovery in November 1858 of gold in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado[3] (then part of the western Kansas Territory)[4] brought on a gold rush and a consequent flood of white emigration across Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.[3] Colorado territorial officials pressured federal authorities to redefine the extent of Indian lands in the territory,[2] and in the fall of 1860, A.B. Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, arrived at Bent's New Fort along the Arkansas River to negotiate a new treaty.[3] On February 18, 1861, six chiefs of the Southern Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United States,[5] in which they ceded to the United States most of the lands designated to them by the Fort Laramie treaty.[2] The Cheyenne chiefs included Black Kettle, White Antelope, Lean Bear, Little Wolf, and Tall Bear; the Arapaho chiefs included Little Raven, Storm, Shave-Head, Big Mouth and Left Hand.[5] The new reserve, less than one-thirteenth the size of the 1851 reserve,[2] was located in eastern Colorado[4] between the Arkansas River and Sand Creek.[2] Some bands of Cheyenne including the Dog Soldiers, a militaristic band of Cheyennes and Lakotas that had evolved beginning in the 1830s, were angry at those chiefs who had signed the treaty, disavowing the treaty and refusing to abide by its constraints.[6] They continued to live and hunt in the bison-rich lands of eastern Colorado and western Kansas, becoming increasingly belligerent over the tide of white immigration across their lands, particularly in the Smoky Hill River country of Kansas, along which whites had opened a new trail to the gold fields.[7] Cheyennes opposed to the treaty said that it had been signed by a small minority of the chiefs without the consent or approval of the rest of the tribe, that the signatories had not understood what they signed, and that they had been bribed to sign by a large distribution of gifts. The whites, however, claimed that the treaty was a "solemn obligation" and considered that those Indians who refused to abide by it were hostile and planning a war.[8] The beginning of the American Civil War in 1861 led to the organization of military forces in Colorado Territory. In March 1862, the Coloradans defeated the Texas Confederate Army in the Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico. Following the battle, the First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers returned to Colorado Territory and were mounted as a home guard under the command of Colonel John Chivington. Chivington and Colorado territorial governor John Evans adopted a hard line against Indians, accused by white settlers of stealing stock. Conflicts between settlers and Indians in the spring of 1864 included the capture and destruction of a number of small Cheyenne camps.[9] On May 16, 1864, a force under Lieutenant George S. Eayre crossed into Kansas and encountered Cheyennes in their summer buffalo-hunting camp at Big Bushes near the Smoky Hill River. Cheyenne chiefs Lean Bear and Star approached the soldiers to signal their peaceful intent, but were shot down by Eayre's troops.[9][10] This incident touched off a war of retaliation by the Cheyennes in Kansas.[9] As conflict between Indians and white settlers and soldiers in Colorado continued, many of the Cheyennes and Arapahos (including those bands under Cheyenne chiefs Black Kettle and White Antelope who had sought to maintain the peace in spite of pressures from whites) were resigned to negotiate peace. They were told to camp near Fort Lyon on the eastern plains and they would be regarded as friendly.