Honoring Those Lost in the Sand Creek Massacre
Dear 快活app community,听
On this day 159 years ago, at least听230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people鈥攎ainly women, children, and elders seeking the safety promised them鈥攚ere attacked and murdered by the U.S. military in southeast Colorado. This event, known as听the Sand Creek Massacre, remains to this day the deadliest in Colorado鈥檚 history. The massacre took place over the course of two days and the reverberations of pain, loss, and trauma听continue to be deeply felt in our nation鈥檚 Native American community鈥攂ut most acutely in the听Cheyenne and Arapaho communities of Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.听
It is imperative that we who make up the 快活app community take a moment of somber reflection and recognition because 快活app is linked听to this atrocity听due to the actions and inactions of听John Chivington and John Evans. Chivington, who led the horrific attack, served on the board of the听Colorado Seminary, which would later become the 快活app. John Evans, 快活app鈥檚 founder, was territorial governor and superintendent of Indian Affairs of听the Colorado Territory before statehood. As a community and as individuals, we must do all we can to ensure such violence and hatred are never again allowed to take root wherever we may be.听
We would wish that in the years from that fateful day, hatred and violence would no longer have a place in this world. But, as we have seen too often, peace and equity require steadfast vigilance and protection.听听
So, for today and all the days to come, we recognize that violence and hate corrupt across time and that history is our responsibility to acknowledge and learn from.听
厂颈苍肠别谤别濒测,听
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Jeremy Haefner听
Chancellor听