Tribal representatives, National Parks Service Director Chuck Sams and Colorado officials, including Hickenklooper, now a U.S. John Hickenlooper apologized on the state’s behalf to tribal members on the 150th anniversary of the massacre. Jared Polis rescinded an 1864 proclamation by Evans that called for citizens to kill Native Americans and take their property. officials are preparing to rename Mount Evans, a prominent Rocky Mountains peak named after Territorial Governor John Evans, who resigned after the Sand Creek massacre. In recent years, Colorado officials have attempted redress. The new expansion also will preserve what Haaland called one of the largest intact shortgrass prairie ecosystems within the National Park system. 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.” She has also formally declared “squaw” a derogatory term and taken steps to remove it from federal government use and to replace other derogatory place names.Įxpansion 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. ![]() government supported to strip Indigenous people of their cultures and identities. Haaland’s selection to lead the federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation’s tribes for nearly two centuries was hailed as historic by Democrats and tribal groups who said it meant that Indigenous people - who lived in North America before the United States was created - would for the first time see a Native American lead the powerful department where decisions on relations with the nearly 600 federally recognized tribes are made.Įarlier this year, the agency released a first-of-its-kind report about Native American boarding schools that the U.S. Haaland’s “Tribal Homelands Initiative” supports fundraising to buy land and requires federal managers to seek out Indigenous knowledge about resources. The move marks the latest step taken by Haaland to act on issues important to Native Americans in her role as Interior Secretary.
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