on november 29th, 1864 in the afternoon with cheyenne and his arapaho arapaho corpses still cooling nearby that his men attacked an indian village, quote brisling with 1,000 warriors. he already at this time began a eratin process ofg exaggerating the accomplishments of his troops. he went on to say that his men killed several chiefs and hundreds of their followers.ld later he would later on increase that number to 500 and ultimately to 600 or 700. l he then justified the attack by tified pointing to department ri dagss he said was committed by the fallen enemy at sand creek. his men hasad claimed -- his men he claimed had whipped, quote, savages, end quote, guilty of ting b desecrating white bodies. this was an outrage he indicated surely demanded a quick reprisal dealt by a sure hand. for the remainder of hi life john shifington said that sand creek was a glorious battle. he made that argument in large arge measure by pointing to the bloodshed civil war context and war to the settlers remains he claimed his men had recovered ettler there. in spring in1865, for example, he to testified to

inveterate foes of texas and the arapahoe zen had no incentive to fight with the south. turning to the massacre, bent related details of shivington's betrayals of the peace chiefs with american and white flags flying over black kettles lodge in the colorado troops butchering. bent understood the civil war as a war of imperialism rather than liberation. hadoncluded that shivington wrought the thing he always claims to have prevented, conflict that threatened if only briefly expansion into the west. he said their actions and somehow decide the service and an had dared to suggest a white man might be uncivilized. downing responded to george bent in the denver times labeling him a cutthroat and the thief, liar and a scoundrel but worst of all, a halfbreed. he turned his attention to embedding john shivington'sa stories into a civil war narrative that heritage groups were constructing around the united states at the time. it was working, native in denver with the unveiling of a memorial on the state capitol steps in 1909. the monument featured the placards days cataloguing ba

army troops on a cheyenne and arapaho indian village in colorado territory. this is from the gettiesburg college war ins tult annual summer conference taking place in june. it's about an hour. [ applause ] >> thanks very much for that very kind introduction. thanks to all of you for your u patience in advance. you i woker up this morning quite nervous. more nervous than i often am u when i'm going to be giving a talk and i think i noticed yesterday a number of you are teachers. is that right? yes? thank you.of i appreciate that. i can just look at kevin if i need. kevin, you teach, right? in addition to blogging.er, in sorry, pete. blo and so,gg you're used to being front of unruly crowds.g and you may also have some experience with a particularly nerve wracking speaking engagement. one of those engagements wrote you're not quite sure where the subject matter of your talk fits with the event at hand. and then, adding to that, you learn that perhaps, i don't know, c-span is going to broadcast your talk live on television because, hey, you know, live television

army troops on a cheyenne and arapaho indian village in colorado territory. this is from the gettiesburg college war ins tult annual summer conference taking place in june. it's about an hour. [ applause ]

again, the city council expected to have arapahoe this unique parking plan tonight, and don't forget, the ribbon cutting if they are thing behind me, its been a long time, it's just a couple days from now on thursday. reporting live here in santa clara, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> it's amazing to watch, bob, thank you much. it's amazing how big that thing is and how quickly it went up. >>> 5:11 right now, morning commute, let's cherk in with mike -- check in with mike inouye. >> they are moving well, especially, bob was talking about levi stadium, i'm wondering how i'm going to help out. that phone is going to be ringing off the hook helping out people individually. that's the reason why valley transportation authority, vta, is working on some of the mass transit solutions that bob was talking about as well as the stories in the redwood city. look at traffic flow, it's easy. redwood city and mountain view is involved because they're going to park and take cal train over there. we'll see how the parking situation works out for them. vta, there's bart, and the ferries moving smoo

all the cheyenne and arapahoe were driven out of colorado.eorge and magpie ended up on a small reserve in what is now oklahoma. the youngest bent, charles, became his family's angry young man. he lived through sand creek massacre and vowed never to settle on a reservation or see his wife father again, and he became a famous cheyenne dog soldier, rating settlements and military installations all over the planes in the 1860's -- rating -- raiding settlements and military installations all over the plains. he was described as the mongrel son of william bent and all the newspapers that described these wars. he became a frightening name in newspaper articles that described the violent chaos of those years. for cheyenne men, this is a very honorable choice, to become a dog soldier, but it was pretty dangerous, and charles was killed by scouts in 1867. whether they spoke english, went to college, owned land, served in the army really did not matter. the bent children, especially boys, were labeled and recognized as indians, which meant they could no

army troops on a cheyenne and arapaho indian village in colorado territory. this is from the gettiesburg college war ins tult annual summer conference taking place in june. it's about an hour. [ applause ] >> thanks very much for that very kind introduction. thanks to all of you for your u patience in advance. you i woker up this morning quite nervous. more nervous than i often am u when i'm going to be giving a talk and i think i noticed yesterday a number of you are teachers. is that right? yes? thank you.of

army attack on a cheyenne and arapahoe village in the colorado territory. and we'll focus on john bell hood's tennessee campaign that led to the near total destruction of his army. american history tv all weekend, every weekend. and weeknights in prime time during congressional recesses on c-span 3. >>> up next, home land security secretary jeh johnson on administrative options to deal with the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the u.s.-mexico border. he recently testified before the house homeland security committee along with fema administrator craig fugate and u.s. border patrol deputy chief ron vitiello. this is two and a half hours. >>> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today to examine the current crisis at the border regarding unaccompanied children. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. today on the southwest border, we are facing an escalating refugee crisis. parents are handing over their young children by the thousands to cartels who are profiting by smuggling the