Center finally consults tribes on Sand Creek Massacre exhibit

Wednesday, July 3, 2013  

History Colorado, a state agency, finally consulted tribes about an exhibit on the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma visited the History Colorado Center last month. Many tribal representatives were seeing the exhibit, "Collision: The Sand Creek Massacre 1860s to Today," for the first time.

The exhibit is closed for now and changes are being made to correct errors and other inaccuracies. "What happened at Sand Creek — you had leadership of very prominent nations completely destroyed, then exiled and never allowed to recover," Troy Eid, a former U.S. Attorney who facilitated the consultation, told Westword.

On the morning of November 29, 1864, U.S. Army soldiers attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho village. They killed upwards of 200 people, mostly women, children and the elderly.

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History Colorado and tribal representatives meet to discuss Sand Creek (Westword 7/4)