By Spencer Kristensen | Fox 31 News
Friday marks 160 years since Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre, where U.S. soldiers attacked a camp of indigenous people, mostly women and children, killing hundreds.
On Nov. 19, 1864, what has become known as the “deadliest day in Colorado history,” more than 200 innocent people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers in an attack on the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. Most of those killed were women, children and the elderly, according to the National Park Service, and hundreds more had to flee north in search of safety.