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Forty-four years ago, in 1969, my Kiowa friend Tim Kloberdanz, my Navajo friend Charlie Cambridge and I attempted to get a dormitory renamed at the University of Colorado that had been named after Captain David Nichols — one of the officers at the Sand Creek massacre of 1864 and later a lieutenant governor of the state. The name we chose was White Antelope, a southern Arapaho chieftain killed at Sand Creek. We founded the Student Crusade for Amerindian Rights (SCAR) at this time, and the dormitory renaming was the first of several projects, including successfully pressuring the university to add Indian studies to the curriculum.
Ellen and Arthur Brady at home on the
Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana.
They were in the Cheyenne camp during
the Sand Creek Massacre. Their daughter
Mary stands in the doorway.
A student referendum on the renaming was eventually held and passed 3-1 after I had graduated. But the Board of Regents rejected the name-change because the family of Nichols, who had donated considerable money to the university when it was founded in 1876, still lived locally and objected.
Eighteen years later, under fresh pressure from Cambridge, faculty and students, my friend, the MacArthur Grant recipient and Western historian Patricia Limerick, was asked to investigate David Nichols, which she did in What's in a Name? Nichols Hall: A Report. Sadly that is no longer available on line. In 1989, the Nichols dormitory was finally renamed Cheyenne-Arapaho Hall. You can see a photo of Cambridge and read more about the renaming here.
Sand Creek wasn't something I learned about in my 9th grade Colorado history class, and it's something that many Coloradans and most other Americans are still unaware of.
The short version: on Nov. 29, 1864, Col. John Chivington and 700 volunteers attacked the peaceful Cheyenne-Arapahoe village on the Colorado plains and killed 150 people, mostly children, women and old men, but also a few leaders of the two tribes. They mutilated bodies, cutting off breasts and scrota for use as tobacco pouches, and rode into Denver with scalps tied to their pommels.
But let Capt. Silas Soule — who was at Sand Creek but refused to fight that day and wrote a letter about the massacre — describe what happened:
The massacre lasted six or eight hours, and a good many Indians escaped. I tell you Ned it was hard to see little children on their knees have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized. One squaw was wounded and a fellow took a hatchet to finish her, and he cut one arm off, and held the other with one hand and dashed the hatchet through her brain. One squaw with her two children were on their knees, begging for their lives of a dozen soldiers, within ten feet of them all firing — when one succeeded in hitting the squaw in the thigh, when she took a knife and cut the throats of both children and then killed herself. ... They were all horribly mutilated. You would think it impossible for white men to butcher and mutilate human beings as they did.
Soule later testified against Chivington and was murdered soon after.
One hundred thirty-five years after the slaughter, in 1999, Congress passed a resolution to establish the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. Subsequently, History Colorado, an organization that had been founded less than 20 years after the massacre, planned an exhibit about Sand Creek in the new building to be opened in Denver in 2012. Progress, right?
Just one problem, as Patricia Calhoun of the Denver weekly Westword wrote last week. Arapaho and Cheyenne descendants of the victims of the massacre living in Montana and Oklahoma hadn't been consulted, as they were supposed to have been, by History Colorado until just a few months before the exhibit was scheduled to open:
And when the [Northern Cheyenne] tribe was consulted, they did not like what they found. A quote from George Bent, a survivor of the massacre, had been edited beyond all meaning. Dates were wrong; spellings were incorrect. A letter written by Soule was to be featured, but it was one he'd written his mother: "I was never much of a Christian and am naturally wild. Our Col. is a Methodist Preacher and whenever he sees me drinking, gambling, stealing or murdering, he says he will write to Mother."
Chivington himself seemed to be getting off easy — especially since in 1865, the congressional committee considering his actions had said it could "hardly find fitting terms to describe his conduct.... He deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would have disgraced the veriest savages."
When the Colorado state historian flew to Billings to smooth over relations with Joe Fox, the vice president of the Northern Cheyenne, he found the experience "bruising," as "consultants from all three tribes expressed their deep sense of personal pain, insult, and outrage at History Colorado's interpretation, and requested a formal apology from the lead developer and the institution's CEO."
Just a month before the exhibit opened in April 2012, they got a meeting with Edward C. Nichols, a fourth generation Coloradan and CEO of History Colorado. The Northern Cheyenne wanted the exhibit not to open until it was reworked. But that didn't happen. Some modest changes were made, but when the tribe saw what was included and excluded in the exhibit, called Collision, they were deeply unhappy. Fox wrote Nichols four months after the opening, Calhoun reported, saying that Collision was still filled with "errors and omissions" and "Others reveal shabby research and a shocking lack of curatorial understanding of the massacre, the events surrounding it, and its meaning to history." He again asked for collaboration with History Colorado. Nichols wrote a letter offering consultations. And the tribe responded that it would do so, with conditions. But nothing happened. You can read the details at the link.
With the 150th anniversary of the slaughter coming up, visitors to the museum will still not get an important part of the story, the Indian side. In other words, same old, same old.
Do you know the history of the First Nations people
who once lived (or still live) near you?
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Saturday, February 23rd
Motor City Kossacks Represent at the Michigan Democratic Party Convention
~Possible lunch and dinner
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: Close to Cabo Hall
TBD • Detroit
ORGANIZER: Send peregrine kate a kosmail to connect.
RSVPs:
1. peregrine kate
2. Brainwrap
3. GwenM
4. ProvokingMeaning
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Maybees:
mideedah
MichiganChet |
Latest diary: Motor City Kossacks: Attending the MI Dem Party Convention this Saturday? (Plus other news)
Sunday, Feb. 24th
Colorado COmmunity - Denver, CO Kossack Meet-up!
TIME: 11:30 AM
LOCATION: Ernie's
2915 W 44th Ave. • Denver
ORGANIZER: Send Leftcandid a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. Leftcandid
2. Maverick80229
3. BadKitties
4. Merry Light (weather permitting) & guests
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Maybees:
Frankenoid
RockyMtnLib
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Latest diary: Denver/Colorado Kossack MEETUP, February 24: In Which I Pester You Again!
Saturday, March 2nd!!
Lone Star Spring Texas State-Wide Meet-Up in Austin
TIME: 2:00-5:00 PM
LOCATION: Opal Divine's Penn Field restaurant and bar
3601 S. Congress Ave • Austin
ORGANIZER: Send nomandates Kosmail to RSVP.
RSVPs:
1. nomandates
2. teknohed
3. papa monzano
4. Chrislove
5. Chrislove's BF
6. glorificus
7. politik
8. mr pea
9. anotherdemocrat
10. Odysseus
11. suesue
12. mr sue sue
13. blue armadillo
14. texasmom
15. texasdad
16. htowngenie
17. navajo (honorary TX Kossack!)
18. afisher
19. manoffire
20. Wino
21. Mrs. Wino
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22. VinaMist
23. doraphasia
24. Urban Owl
25. Texdude50
26. icelus
27. entrelac
28. Mr. entrelac
29. JayRaye
30. cosette
31. belinda ridgewood (honorary TX Kossack!)
32. Carol in San Antonio
33. krwheaton
34. +1 from Harris County
35. KTinTX
36. TexMex
37. Musicman (honorary TX kossack)
38. freerad
39. freerad's guest
Maybees:
Mosquito Pilot
Over the Edge
yoduuuh do or do not
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Sunday, March 3rd
Austin's 84th Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival
TIME: Early Afternoon
LOCATION: Zilker Park
2100 Barton Springs Rd. • Austin
ORGANIZER: Send papa monzano Kosmail to connect at the event.
Latest diary: Tex Kos Inaugural Gathering, plus T-Shirts, SDEC Meeting, and Kite Festival
Monday, March 4th
New York City Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Spitzer's Corner
101 Rivington Street (Ludlow) • NYC
ORGANIZER: Send Sidnora a kosmail to RSVP
RSVPs:
1. sidnora
2. joanbrooker
3. ask
4. brooklyn liberal
5. rubyr
6. casperr
7. thankgodforairamerica
8. Rosalie 907 + friends
9. blue jersey mom
10. clenchner
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Maybees:
plf515
Laura Clawson
Arjun Jaikumar
belinda ridgewood
Its the Supreme Court Stupid
srkp23
David Nir
Batya the Toon
kathny
TiaRachel
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Latest diary: Save the Date for a New York Metro Meetup, March 4!
DailyKos readers who live and/or work in New England
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
New England Kossacks All Day Meet-up
Saturday, March 9th
ORGANIZER: Send Clytemnestra a kosmail to attend.
TIME: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
LOCATION I: SolToro in the Mohegan Sun Casino
1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard • Uncasville, CT
RSVPs:
1. Clytemnestra
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TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
LOCATION II: Mystic Pizza
56 West Main Street • Mystic, CT
RSVPs:
1. Clytemnestra
2.
3.
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Maybees:
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TIME: 11:00 - ? PM
LOCATION III: TBD
[Address] • [City]
RSVPs:
1. Clytemnestra
2.
3.
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Maybees:
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Latest diary: New England Kossacks - March meet up
Sunday, March 10th
SAVE THE DATE: SFKossacks Roll Out the Red Carpet for a gilas girl
Guaymas in Tiberon: Time TBD
Meet at the Ferry Building and take the ferry to Tiberon.
Dine at Guaymas in the sun • Tiberon
Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park: Time TBD
We'll take the Ferry back to the Ferry building and then take public trans to the park • San Francisco
LOCATION III: TBD for early dinner
Address TBD • San Francisco
RSVPs:
1. a gilas girl
2. navajo
3. side pocket
4. dharmasyd [lunch]
5. Meteor Blades
6. Glen the Plumber
7. remembrance
8. smileycreek
9. paradise50
10. Cali Scribe
11. Mr. Scribe
12. slouching
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13. no way lack of brain
14. norm
15. boatsie
16. Lorikeet
17. FogCityJohn
18. madhaus
19. Steveningen
Maybees:
edrie
lineatus
maggiejean
no way lack of brain
scaboni
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Kansas & Missouri Kossacks
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Friday, March 15th
Kansas & Missouri Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: Free State Brewing Company
636 Massachusetts Street • Lawrence
ORGANIZER: Send tmservo433 a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. tmservo433
2. glitterscale
3. Geiiga
4. Syoho
5. Paula68154
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Maybees:
Scout Finch
zamrzla |
Latest diary: [Diva waiting...]
Mid-March - Boston Kossacks First Meet-up
Boston Kossacks First Meet-up
TIME: Possibly 2:00 PM, stay tuned
LOCATION: The Border Cafe
32 Church Street • Cambridge
ORGANIZER: Send GreyHawk a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. GreyHawk
2. bjedward
3. gmoke
4. BlueStateRedhead
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Maybees:
AnotherMassachusettsLiberal |
Latest diary: Boston Kossacks - 1st Meetup
Saturday, April 20th]
Dkos Asheville's First Meet-up
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: The Bywater
796 Riverside Dr. • Asheville
ORGANIZER: Send randallt a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. randallt
2. davehouck
3. Otteray Scribe
4. eeff
5. people power granny
6. Joieau
7. LamontCranston
8. cultjake
9. GordonNC (UID 5123 & City Councilman)
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10. DawnN
11. SteelerGrrl
12. SteelerDude
13. Captain Sham
14. Sandy on Signal
Maybees:
polecat
Land of Enchantment
jnhobbs
alicia (plus two)
Nic Goodman
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Latest diary: [Diva waiting...]
From randallt: "DKos Asheville is hosting a meet up and we've managed to cast a wide net! Asheville NC is the epicenter of cool progressive in the heart of the mountains and we have folks traveling from Eastern Tennessee, the Southern Highlands and Charlotte. So don't let the distance keep you away, come to Asheville, sign up today! You know you want to."
Netroots Nation 2013 in San Jose: Plenary Session Table Reservations
June 20th - 23rd • REGISTER HERE
SFKossacks:
1. side pocket [First Lieutenant]
2. mrs. side pocket
3. kimoconnor
4. citisven
5. lineatus
6. Cali Scribe
7. Glen the Plumber
8. remembrance
9. jotter
10. Mrs. jotter
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SFKossacks:
1. Lusty
2. mrsgoo
3. norm
4. boran2 (Honorary)
5. Lorikeet
6. FogCityJohn
7. slksfca
8. madhaus
9. boatsie
10. maggiejean
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SFKossacks:
1. Kamakhya
2. dharmasyd
3. Ebby
4. Bustergirl
5.
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Native American Netroots:
1. navajo
2. Meteor Blades
3. shanikka
4. no way lack of brain
5. translatorpro
6. Kitsap River
7. Charles Curtis Stanley
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10.
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Central Valley Kossacks:
1. tgypsy
2. cooper888
3. gotmooned
4. paradise50
5. smileycreek
6. Caddis Fly
7.
8.
9.
10.
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Lone Star Kossacks:
1. nomandates
2. texasmom
3. texasdad
4. doraphasia
5. krwheaton
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
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Cheers & Jeers:
1. Bill in Portland Maine
2. Common Sense Mainer
3. vicki
4. Sharoney
5. Spousal Unit
6. cskendrick
7.
8.
9.
10.
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Los Angeles Kossacks:
1. Shockwave
2. jakedog42
3. susans
4. murphy
5. Dave in Northridge
6.
7.
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9.
10.
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NYC and beyond:
1. sidnora
2. belinda ridgewood
3. belinda ridgewood's guest
4. Jimdotz
5. theroaringgirl
6. thankgodforairamerica
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8.
9.
10.
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Community Quilt Project:
1. Sara R
2. winglion?
3. loggersbrat
4. ramara (Arizona)
5. Horace Boothroyd III
6. linkage
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8.
9.
10.
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Military Community Members:
1. DaNang65
2. drnatrl
3. angelajean (Maybe)
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5.
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10.
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Misc. registered Kossacks + regions:
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Hopefully we can put together whole tables for them.
Community Quilt Project NN13 Flash Mob Photo
smileycreek is organizing and asking all Community Quilt recipients to bring their quilts to NN13. We'll assemble at a pre-designated location and time for a group photo with one of the NN13 professional photographers. It will be a group hug celebrating one of the most beloved community building projects we have here at Daily Kos with Sara R and winglion at the center of it. navajo and Glen the Plumber are going to scout out and select a location in advance for all to meet with their quilts for a memorable photo opportunity. Stay tuned.
Date: TBD Time: TBD
1. paradise50
2. Dave in Northridge
3. remembrance
4. BeninSC
5. mimi
6. cskendrick
7. DaNang65
8. llbear (not attending, quilt only)
9. Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (may not attend)
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10. Smoh (not attending, quilt only)
11. slksfca
12. belinda ridgewood
13. Ebby
14. Bustergirl
15. Kitsap River
16. Charles Curtis Stanley
17.
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Send navajo a kosmail if you post a diary about an event so we can update our round-up.
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