Mochi's War
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On the second night the man said “it’s time for us to move” so we started north along the creek and walked all night. When it started to dawn the man said that we have to move away from the creek and hide all day till nightfall and continue our journey north. He said that they would walk and hide during the night. We walked for several nights and when the man thought it was safe enough, we started walking during the day. How we survived was that we dug up the roots that we knew were edible and also any berries that hadn’t fallen off the bushes. Also we would sit above the prairie dog holes and knock them in the head and roast them.
By then we weren’t afraid to make fires as it was getting cold. I don’t remember how many days it took us to reach our gathering place. I do remember that the snow was already deep. The Arapahos that were there told of some of the people that were caught and some of the ones that were killed. We stayed at the gathering place for several more days then we moved further north. We stayed near the mountains to get any game animals for food and if the soldiers found us we could get away in the mountains.
Story of the Sand Creek Massacre as told to Warren children by their grandmother, Singing Under Water Moss.
I’ll tell you what my grandmother told me a long time ago. When the army came in and started killing them. She said it was bad, they murdered them, tortured them, and the horses they were on, they were just dragging them, and everything was burned down. And her and her mother and her grandmother were running up the hill. And my grandfather’s mom, that was Matt Sitting Eagle. And she said her mother was packing him, he was just a baby, about three or four years old. She got shot in that battle, in the shoulder, and he got nicked in his shoulder too. They got away and they had to wait till everything calmed down and they went back down there and there was a lot of wounded and some were dead and they buried them. And they had to leave from there because they couldn’t sleep there . . . it was bad.
Evangeline C’Hair
They never really forgot what happened. They would cry whenever they told about Sand Creek. . . . When everyone started running the young ones would get lost. Those that hid watched the soldiers from their hiding place. During that time when it was almost over, soldiers came out and cut open the bellies of women who were going to have a child. When they cut the child out they cut his throat.
Emma Red Hat and William Red Hat, Jr.
The battle scattered people. . . . At Sand Creek, you can go there at any time of day or night and if you close your mind to everything else you can feel the children, where they’re congregating and laughing and having fun. The old ladies mostly congregate in the shade. The young warriors congregate in the rocks.
Robert Toahty
I remember the story. It’s about a little old lady. It was either her grandson or probably an orphan boy. They lived together and she was camped on the outskirts of the main camp. So during the battle they weren’t right in the midst of it. Her grandson grabbed a very stubborn horse or mule or maybe a donkey. I’m sure it was frightened too, but he tried to put his grandmother on the horse and she would fall off on the other side. I can imagine the frenzy, everything going on, bullets flying, screaming, and he was desperately trying to get his grandmother away. And she had a medicine bundle, I don’t know if it was hers or someone else’s, she had it on her back and he managed to get her on there and they got away from the battle. And as they were running or leaving and the bullets were flying around and she put her head forward and at that instant a bullet grazed her head and followed the top of her head.
Marie Sanchez
1. Medicine Hat News, March 12, 1991.
2. John Stands in Timber and Margot Liberty, A Cheyenne Voice.
3. Sand Creek Massacre Project Site Location Study.
Notes
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Index
A
ancestors, 1
Anderson, M. B., 1
Anthony, Scott J., 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5 Fort Wise treaty with Cheyenne and, 1.1-1.2
Hungate, N., family attacked by, 1
Left Hand (Arapaho chief), 1 , 2 , 3
Neva (Arapaho chief), 1.1-1.2
Army, U.S., 1 Black Kettle’s belief of peace with, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6
capture of Bowstring Society ordered by, 1
Plains Indians’ dwindled supplies of, 1.1-1.2
pregnant women slaughtered by, 1
Sand Creek Massacre and, 1
treaties broken by, 1
truce flag ignored by, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2
Asher, Ambrose, 1
B
Baldwin, Frank, 1
Battle of Glorieta Pass, 1
Battle of Julesburg, 1
Battle of Washita Black Kettle and, 1.1-1.2
buffalo and, 1 , 2
Cheyenne land boundary as cause of, 1
Cheyenne survivors of, 1.1-1.2
criticism of events at, 1
Custer as leading, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4
Custer’s report on victory at, 1.1-1.2
death toll at, 1 , 2
defense articles and reasons for, 1.1-1.2
as gruesome, 1.1-1.2
Mochi and, 1 , 2.1-2.2
Plains Indians and, 1.1-1.2
Seventh U.S. Cavalry charging at, 1
Bear Tusk, Nellie, 1
Belknap, William, 1
Bent, George, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7.1-7.2
Bent, Magpie, 1
Big Moccasin, 1
Big Sandy Creek, 1 , 2 , 3
Big Squaw See Mochi
Black Bear, 1
Black Coal, 1
Black Foot, 1
Black Horse, 1
Black Kettle (Cheyenne chief), 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7 Army peace agreement and, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6
Battle of Washita and, 1.1-1.2
bullet wounds and wife of, 1 , 2
Chivington, J. M., and Sand Creek camp of, 1
death of both wife and, 1.1-1.2
Lincoln’s meeting with, 1.1-1.2
Medicine Lodge Creek treaty and, 1
Plains Indians’ peace treaty request and, 1.1-1.2
refusal to take up arms against U.S., 1
Sand Creek escape of, 1
Sand Creek Massacre and disbelief of, 1
storyteller and meeting with, 1.1-1.2
as survivor of Sand Creek Massacre, 1
U.S. flag attempt for peace by, 1 , 2 , 3
U.S. flag presented to, 1
warning given to, 1
Blacklidge, Frank, 1.1-1.2
Blanche White Shield, 1
blind man, 1.1-1.2
“
“Bloodless Third,” 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4
B
Bowstring Society, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 Army ordered to capture, 1
German family attacked by, 1.1-1.2
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sp; government land surveyors killed by, 1.1-1.2
prisoner adaptations of, 1.1-1.2
surrender of, 1
surveyors as encroaching on lands of, 1
Brady, Ray, 1
Brule, 1
buffalo, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 Battle of Washita and, 1 , 2
destruction of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Plains Indians’ dance showing importance of, 1
Buffalo Spring Station attack, 1.1-1.2
Bull Bear (chief of Dog Soldiers), 1.1-1.2
C
Caloway, Thomas, 1.1-1.2
camp crier, 1
Camp Weld, 1.1-1.2
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1 , 2
Castillo de San Marco See Fort Marion prison
Cavalry, U.S., 1.1-1.2 See also “Bloodless Third” See also Colorado Volunteers See also First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry Regiment See also Seventh U.S. Cavalry See also Third Colorado Cavalry See also volunteers
Central Pacific Railroad, 1
chastity, 1.1-1.2
Cheyenne, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 Adobe Wall attack and, 1.1-1.2
as Battle of Washita survivors, 1.1-1.2
as becoming unfriendly, 1
breaking free songs by women of, 1
Buffalo Spring Station’s nearby attack of, 1.1-1.2
Fort Wise treaty with Arapaho and, 1.1-1.2
as friendliest among Plains Indians, 1
German Family attacked by, 1.1-1.2
German girls as surviving capture by, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5
Heap of Birds (Cheyenne leader), 1
legendary times of, 1
Little Robe (Cheyenne chief), 1
marriage ceremony customs of, 1.1-1.2
Medicine Lodge Creek treaty reservations and, 1.1-1.2 , 2
military societies of, 1
promised provisions not given to, 1.1-1.2
removal of tribesman refused by chiefs of, 1.1-1.2
renegade reputation of Mochi and Medicine Water, 1
roles of women as, 1.1-1.2
Sand Creek camp of, 1