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00:00On November 29, 1864, a unit of cavalry numbering 900 men surrounded a peaceful Cheyenne village
00:14at Sand Creek, Colorado.
00:16The Indians raised the American flag and a white flag of surrender.
00:20They're coming out, sir.
00:22What?
00:23What's that?
00:24I think it's Spotted Wolf.
00:25My God, sir, he's got a flag of truce.
00:26Yes, sir, it's a white flag.
00:28Nonsense.
00:30I told you to give the order.
00:32Sir?
00:33Well, give the order!
00:35Yes, sir.
00:37Open fire!
00:39Nevertheless, the cavalry attacked, slaughtering 700 Indians, more than half of whom were women
00:47and children.
00:53Troop, at the trot, march!
00:58The factual account of that massacre is now documented in a motion picture.
01:02Ralph Nelson's Soldier Blue.
01:11Good brave lads, coming out here to kill themselves a real live Indian, putting up their forts
01:17in a country they've got no claim to.
01:18So what the hell do you expect the Indians to do, sit back on their butts while the army
01:23takes over their land?
01:24You saw for yourself what they did, taking off scalps.
01:28Yeah, and who taught them that little trick?
01:29The white men.
01:30Oh, and cutting off hands, and cutting off feet, and cutting off...
01:36I know what they cut off, but at least they don't make tobacco pouches out of them.
01:40That's something else you soldier boys made up.
01:43You're lying.
01:44Get that white woman out of there!
01:45Yes, sir.
01:57Oh, no!
02:19Get one poor devil out of its misery.
02:21Yes!
02:22Yes!
02:23Yes!
02:24Yes!
02:25Yes!
02:26Where are you going?
02:28Run!
02:30Run!
02:46Resta.
02:55Got a prayer, soldier Blue?
03:00A nice poem?
03:05Say something pretty.
03:12General Nelson A. Miles, Army Chief of Staff, termed the Sand Creek Massacre perhaps the
03:17foulest and most unjust crime in the annals of American history.
03:23Anders Bergen, Peter Strauss, Ralph Nelsons, Soldier Blue.