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US to expand historical site marking Native American massacre

A sign marks the entrance to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Eads, Colorado [File: Russell Contreras/AP Photo]

The United States government has said it will expand the size of a historical site memorialising the massacre of more than 230 Native Americans in Sand Creek, Colorado by US soldiers in the 1860s.

In a ceremony on Wednesday, US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site would acquire nearly 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of additional land.

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