“We don’t want our children and grandchildren to fight an uphill battle to know what happened to our folks,” said Bear, a descendant of Cheyenne Chief Black Whiteman, who sought food and shelter for the widowed and the orphaned after the attack. Max Bear, the tribal historic preservation officer for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, welcomed Haaland’s homage as sustaining the storytelling mission he and countless others have dedicated their lives to. commander of nearby Fort Lyon tried to wave white flags. But some commanders refused to attack, saying Native American leaders who believed they had made peace with the U.S. Soldiers carried body parts back to Denver in celebration.
The expedition ostensibly was to retaliate for Native American raids on white settlers. Troops swept into a sleeping encampment of 750 Native Americans along Sand Creek, killing more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho, most of them women, children and the elderly. The historic site near Eads, Colorado, preserves the haunting landscape of the Nov. Stories like the Sand Creek Massacre are not easy to tell but it is my duty – our duty – to ensure that they are told.
“We will never forget the hundreds of lives that were brutally taken here – men, women and children murdered in an unprovoked attack. "The events that took place here forever changed the course of the Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho, and Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes,” she said. She declared that it is her department's "solemn responsibility” to “tell the story of our nation.” Expansion of the Sand Creek Massacre site will provide more opportunities for visitors to learn about the 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho, most of them women and children, Haaland said Wednesday.
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