Sand Creek Massacre descendants sue federal government for reparations
Posted on July 11, 2013
Descendants of victims of the Sand Creek Massacre have filed a class-action lawsuit in Denver against the federal government, seeking reparations they claim were never paid for the slaughter of their Cheyenne and Arapaho ancestors 149 years ago. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court on behalf of four Oklahoma-based members of the Sand Creek Massacre Descendants Trust, is the most concrete step taken in decades bydescendants long frustrated by politics, inaction and divisions in their ranks. The complaint accuses the government and its agents of lawless behavior and hollow promises...