Abstract
In November 1864, while the Civil War raged in the Eastern United States, five hundred Cheyenne were slaughtered in an unprovoked surprise attack near Fort Bent, Colorado. This atrocity, committed by the Colorado Volunteers who were associated with the Union Army, is remembered as the Sand Creek Massacre. Although not represented on stage, this massacre serves as the focal point of Ross Lee Finney's new opera, Weep Torn Land.' On stage, the dual conflicts between the White Man and the Indian, and between the North and the South, converge in the tragedy of one family. The murder of a Union officer by his son, a Confederate soldier, results from misunderstanding about who was responsible for the order to attack at Sand Creek. That son, in turn, is killed by his own brother, who like their father, is a Union soldier.
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