{"id":7610,"date":"2012-12-30T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2012-12-30T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:18:50","slug":"denverpost-sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/denverpost-sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"(DenverPost)  &#8220;Sand Creek Massacre descendants seek justice 148 years later&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At dawn on Nov. 29, 1864, Colorado soldiers attacked peaceful Indians camped on the banks of Sand Creek in what is now southeastern Colorado, slaughtering an estimated 163 \u2014 mainly women, children and the elderly \u2014 and desecrating their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash was so severe, the U.S. government not only acknowledged wrongdoing but promised reparations of land and cash to survivors and relatives of victims.<\/p>\n<p>That promise \u2014 spelled out in an 1865 treaty \u2014 remains unfulfilled, according to descendants and their attorneys.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>TO READ THE STORY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_22280966\/sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/denverpost-sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years-later\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_03-l\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7611\" alt=\"sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_03-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_03-L.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_03-L.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_03-L-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/denverpost-sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years-later\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_02-l\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7612\" alt=\"sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_02-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_02-L.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_02-L.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sand-creek-massacre-122912pt_02-L-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_22280966\/sand-creek-massacre-descendants-seek-justice-148-years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At dawn on Nov. 29, 1864, Colorado soldiers attacked peaceful Indians camped on the banks of Sand Creek in what is now southeastern Colorado, slaughtering an estimated 163 \u2014 mainly women, children and the elderly \u2014 and desecrating their bodies. The backlash was so severe, the U.S. government not only acknowledged wrongdoing but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}