Remember Sand Creek campaign launched to build Memorial at Colorado State...
The Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, in partnership with the One Earth Future foundation, have launched Remember Sand Creek – a campaign to create a...
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The 17th Annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run/Walk
The 17th Annual Spiritual Healing Run will be held from Thursday, November 26th through Sunday, November 29th, the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. The healing run was started in 1999 by the...
View ArticleHarvey Pratt
Harvey Pratt is currently in the process of creating the Sand Creek Massacre Memorial. He is an accomplished master Native American Indian artist of both Cheyenne and Arapaho descent. Pratt spoke to...
View ArticleGail Ridgely
Gail Ridgely is a member of the Remember Sand Creek Memorial design committee. A Northern Arapaho tribal Member, of Riverton, Wyoming, Ridgely is a descendent of the massacre, and a member of the DU...
View ArticleMemory, Trauma and Survivance: Sand Creek to Würzburg and Back Again
Billy J. Stratton, associate professor of English at the University of Denver, discusses the memorialization of the Sand Creek Massacre in comparison to holocaust memorials in Würzburg, Germany. The...
View ArticleSeidel Standing Elk
Painter and teacher Seidel Standing Elk is a member of the Remember Sand Creek Memorial design committee. Standing Elk is a member of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and a descendant of the So-taaeo-o....
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Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell to speak at Remember Sand Creek Fundraiser Event
Ben Nighthorse Campbell U.S. Senator – Retired President Ben Nighthorse Consultants, Inc. Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell will be a guest speaker at our fundraising event December 1st....
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Governor Hickenlooper Speaks at the 17th Annual Spiritual Healing Run
Last Thursday members of the Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho, and the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes began the 17th annual Spiritual healing run at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic...
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Denver Westword: The Sand Creek Massacre Could Be Remembered With a Permanent...
Governor John Hickenlooper at last year’s commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre. The past is coming full circle, writes Patricia Calhoun of Denver Westword. See the full article:...
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Denver Post: Fundraiser for Sand Creek memorial at state Capitol is Tuesday
A miniature model of artist Harvey Pratt’s proposed memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre shows a woman unable to run from soldiers, holding an empty cradle board. Over 150 years after 200 Cheyenne and...
View ArticleColorado Public Radio: Tribes Seek Sand Creek Massacre Memorial
Listen to Megan Verlee of CPR discuss the planned memorial: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/tribes-seek-sand-creek-massacre-memorial-colorados-capitol The post Colorado Public Radio: Tribes Seek Sand...
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From Denver Westword: The Past Is Always With Us
Congress recognized Sand Creek as a massacre in 1865, but the first monument at the site called it a “battle.” Changing names and removing plaques are not going to erase past horrors. What they might...
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Remember Sand Creek Memorial Fundraiser
Thanks to all who attended the Remember Sand Creek Memorial Fundraiser on December 1st at the Colorado Governors Mansion. The event was a great success, with attendees raising over $20,000 dollars for...
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Stories of Native Presence and Survivance in Commemoration of the 151st...
Evocations of Survivance: Native Storiers in Word and Image in Remembrance of Sand Creek In this volume of Common-Place, native educators, poets, artists, and authors share stories of native presence...
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In Memory of Sand Creek a Lesson Plan
A two week lesson plan on the Sand Creek Massacre by Carolyn Sue Bowman for grades 9-11. Due to it’s graphic nature, this lesson is designed for high school students. Students will will have the...
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Job Opportunity!
Job Description: Sand Creek Memorial Intern Position Title: Sand Creek Memorial Intern Reports to: Program Development Manager Job Type: Hourly, Non-Exempt Organization Summary One Earth Future (OEF)...
View ArticleReflections on Healing and Responsibility from the Symposium on Sand Creek...
Last May, the University of Denver’s Conflict Resolution Institute, Center on Rights Development, and the John Evans Study Committee hosted a day long event titled the Symposium on Sand Creek...
View ArticleCommunication as a Key to Healing
Laurel Hayden discusses her personal and family connection to the Sand Creek Massacre. Hayden is a passionate spokesperson for indigenous rights, the former Associate Director of the Center on Rights...
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Gregg Deal: Reconciling the Spirit of the Spaces We Occupy
Artist Gregg Deal emphasizes the need for Americans to understand “where we are, who was here, who facilitated us to be here,” and the need to honor the spaces and the people who lived here. He...
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Sign the Petition!
“Build a Memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre at the Colorado State Capitol“ See our ad in the Denver March Powwow Program. Sign our Change.org petition to build a memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre at...
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