It produced sufficient outrage to generate an investigation and a report.

It did not produce sufficient will to impose meaningful consequences on the people responsible.

The distance between recognizing a crime and punishing it is a measure of how seriously a society actually regards what it claims to regard as serious.

Black Kettle survived Sand Creek and watched this unfold.

He continued to seek peace even as the system that had attacked him demonstrated that it would not hold its own agents accountable for violating the most basic commitments.

The Washita: A Different Kind of Accountability