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Two Unsung Heroes Of Sand Creek Featured In Article

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Every Thanksgiving weekend for the past 1 7 years, Arapaho and Cheyenne youth lead a 180-mile relay from the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in eastern Colorado to Denver.

In Nov. 2016, The Independent published an article about the annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run, which opens at the site of the Sand Creek Massacre near Eads, Colorado.

The event honors the hundreds of Arapaho and Cheyenne people killed in the infamous Nov. 29, 1864 massacre - carried out by Col. John Chivington.

The massacre has garnered a lot of attention over the years, but the article explores another part of the story that few people know about = two heroes of the horrific event, U.S. soldiers Captain Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer, who refused to take part in the murders. The men also ordered their troops to stand down during the massacre.

Soule and Cramer are honored and revered by the ancestors of the Arapaho and Cheyenne people they tried to save.