On the morning of November 29, 1864, as the first pale light crept across the plains of the Colorado Territory, about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho people awoke along a quiet bend of Big Sandy Creek with the fragile belief that they were safe.
Their chiefs, led by Chief Black Kettle, had met with U.S. Army officers at Camp Weld in September 1864.
They had move…
