> mcalc@aol.com writes:
>> I Read in the paper today: Sunday 4/28/1996 that in Denver - "The United
>> Methodist Church leaders apologized to Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes for the
>> slaughter in 1864 of about 200 Indians (Native Americans) in a massacre led
>> by a lay preacher [and asked for reparations].
> This is good to hear. In 1991, Rev. Homer Noley (Choctaw), Director of
> Native American Methodist Ministry in the US, published (with a Methodist
> press) his history of Methodism in the US, First White Frost...
From my own "mixed up files" comes this
From: wildcat@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Wes Wildcat)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 23:58:37 GMT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.native
Subject: Re: End Chief Wahoo, info request
...
Several years ago CU had the name of a dorm changed because it was named
after a soldier who lead the Sand Creek Massacre. It took years but the
dorm was renamed to Cheyenne-Arapahoe Hall. The president of the
university got involved in this and was the one responsible for getting
the name change. I don't remember the name of the soldier but also was
one of the primary persons for getting CU started, so you can probably
imagine the battle that went on.
...
Wes didn't then recall that it was that hero of the Colorado Militia,
Col. Chivington.
Related (and not quite so net-passe) are Jordan's posts, the Medals of
[dis]Honor threads, to which Stephen Samuel added this:
This remains formally, according to the US military history, a "Union
Victory".
To quote the page (a current NPS web page I think, I'll check)
... In the autumn, Territorial (Colorado) officers had offered a vague
amnesty if Indians reported to army forts... In spite of the American flag
and a white flag flying over the camp, the troops attacked, killing and
mutilating about 200 of the Indians, two-thirds of whom were women and
children.
This from the NPS in 1996??? How "past due".
I guess I should look and see what the NPS has on the little meeting of
minds on the Marias. The Heavy Runner band lost 169 that morning, the
usual mix of elders, women in camp, and children, a buffalo hunt then
being in progress.
We still have a problem with people thinking that the past is all tidily
taken care of.
-- Kitakitamatsinohpowaw (I'll see you again),--Eric Brunner