Professor of American Literature and Culture; Native American Studies, University of Denver
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Remembering the U.S. Soldiers Who Refused Orders to Murder Native Americans at Sand Creek
11-21-2017
Image via George Levi / The Conversation.
The story of Soule’s and Cramer’s actions and their courage to say “no” to the killing of peaceful people at Sand Creek is an important chapter of U.S. history. I maintain that it is people like Soule and Cramer who truly deserve to be remembered through monuments and memorials, and can be a source for a different kind of historical understanding: one based not on abstract notions of justice and right, but upon the courage and integrity it takes to breathe life into those virtues.