- "The Sand Creek Massacre": Winner best documentary film in 3 film festivals-Catalogued into Smithsonian Institute Libraries, 42 tribal college libraries, several museums, colleges and universities. Being distributed by Films Media Group. The Sand Creek Massacre is an examination of an open wound in the souls of the Cheyenne people as told from their perspective. On November 29, 1864, members of the United States Army savagely slaughtered 150 peace-seeking Cheyenne and Arapaho children, women and men under its protection. Simmering tensions have been activated as expansion again encroaches upon Cheyenne land and this sacred burial site. This film chronicles that horrific 19th century event and its affect on the 21st century struggle for respectful coexistence between white and Native American plains cultures.—Donald L. Vasicek
- The Sand Creek Massacre is a story about the ugliest form of human depravity in the history of mankind where 700 Colorado 1st & 3rd Cavalries shot, raped, mutilated, murdered and burned over 400 Cheyenne children, special needs people. women and elders, while the warriors were out in a hunting party. The Cheyenne offer a friendship treaty to people coming west in 1825. In 1851, the Cheyenne agree to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which shrinks their 55 million acres of land to between the Platte and Arkansas Rivers in the Colorado Territory. The 1861 Treat of Fort Wise sends the Cheyenne to Fort Lyons in southeastern Colorado to await word on where they are going to live. Once there, they are sent to Sand Creek.
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