Massacre at Sand Creek : how Methodists were involved in an American tragedy /

Massacre at Sand Creek : how Methodists were involved in an American tragedy /

At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos, primarily women, children and elderly, camped under the protection of the U.S. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory and flying both...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Gary L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chivington, John M. > (John Milton), > 1821-1894.
Evans, John, > 1812-1861.
Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864.
Cheyenne Indians > Wars, 1864.
Arapaho Indians > Wars.
Methodists > United States > Biography.
Church and social problems > Methodist Church.
Whites > Relations with Indians.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Government relations > 1789-1869.
Table of Contents:
  • Which way? Whose way?
  • The road to dominion
  • The bitter conundrum
  • Methodists and the American Indian
  • John Milton Chivington: the fighting parson
  • John Evans, M.D.: entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Colorado's "Indian problem"
  • The path to Sand Creek
  • Protest and recrimination
  • Methodists, Sand Creek, and the "Indian question"
  • Chivington and Evans: the later years
  • The balance sheet.