"Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you
by your parents, it was loaned to you by your
children. We do not inherit the Earth from
our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
- Indian Proverb, posted at Sand Creek


The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is about a three hours drive southeast from Denver, near the Kansas border, in Kiowa County.

The National Historic Site is the place where, on November 29, 1864, more than 650 United States troops attacked a group ...