November is Native American Heritage Month. In recognition of the month, History Colorado is highlighting the stories and contributions of the Indigenous people who call Colorado home.
Sam Bock is a historian and exhibit developer at History Colorado. He said their biggest exhibit will commemorate the Sand Creek Massacre.
At sunrise on November 29, 1864, the U.S. Army attacked a camp of mostly women, children, and elders on Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado. The soldiers murdered more than 230 peaceful people. “This trauma and the stories, you know... this is family history for these people,” said Bock. “The original exhibit at History Colorado did not sufficiently represent all this context, and all of the trauma and memory and feelings around this and from those tribal perspectives.”
“This is the first exhibit about the Sand Creek Massacre that’s going to be told from the first-person perspective of the descendants of those affected,” said Bock.
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