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Legislature green lights Sand Creek memorial. But what will it look like? Where will it stand?
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Lawmakers passed a resolution green lighting a memorial to be placed on the Capitol grounds dedicated to the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, in which Colorado Volunteer soldiers killed as many as 163 Cheyenne and Arapaho, many of them women and children. The memorial has been years in the making. The 12-member Capitol Building Advisory Committee…