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Harjo: Secrets of the Sand Creek land purchase
Monday, December 22, 2003

"There’s big talk about a big money deal in the making in the name of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people and the Sand Creek Massacre.

But, don’t tell any Cheyennes, Arapahos or Sand Creek descendants, because it’s a big honking secret.

The "Cheyenne-Arapaho Homecoming Project" proposes a casino in Colorado, whose profits are intended to extinguish all tribal claims in the state and to make up for the Colorado Volunteers’ massacre of elders, pregnant women and children at a Cheyenne peace camp along the Sand Creek in 1864.

The project is the brainchild of a lawyer/venture capitalist, Steve Hillard, who runs Council Tree Communications in Longmont, Colo. He teamed up with some Alaska Natives who have crazy clout with Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and can get him to get Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., to support the project. "

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