<p>The community of descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre maintain rituals of healing that honor the dead while affirming bonds of community that have been tested by a long history of dispossession and the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>The community of descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre maintain rituals of healing that honor the dead while affirming bonds of community that have been tested by a long history of dispossession and the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
By CAROL McKINLEY
Special to Colorado Politics
Evans role in the massacre is why state and federal naming boards are considering proposals to rename Mt. Evans, with several proposals submitted by the tribes.
The endowment s Public Humanities Project grant will fund an installation on the top floor of the History Colorado Center for at least five years, according to a news release from History Colorado.
Grant funds will support ongoing tribal consultation, research, and exhibition design. The exhibition reflects an eight-year partnership between History Colorado and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, the Northern Arapaho Tribe, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Participating tribal historians and descendants include Otto Braided Hair (Northern Cheyenne), Fred Mosqueda (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma), Ben Ridgely (Northern Arapaho), Gail Ridgley (Northern Arapaho), and Chester Whiteman (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
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Denver, Colo. (April 16, 2021) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced this week that it is awarding $400,000 to to support a new, long-term exhibition at the History Colorado Center that recounts the deadliest day in Colorado history the 1864 atrocity known as the Sand Creek Massacre with the voices of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members. Others may lend support for this exhibition via historycolorado.org/donate or philanthropy@state.co.us, and follow its progress in History Colorado’s online digest.
The NEH is awarding a Public Humanities Projects grant for the exhibition, which will be installed on the top floor of the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver for at least five years. Grant funds will support ongoing tribal consultation, further research, and exhibition design. The exhibition will reflect a partnership process now in its eighth year between History Colorado and three tribal groups: the
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