Remembering

Sand Creek Massacre is poorly known Government did little at the time Little has been done to memorialize victims

The Monument

Bronze Statue Large Flagpole surrounded by items found in a village

Statue of a Native American reaching for flagpole

It is the object of this Government to be on terms of peace with you, and with all our red brethren. We make treaties with you, and will try to observe them; and if our children should sometimes behave badly, and violate these treaties, it is against our wish.

- Abraham Lincoln

After the Massacre

Bodies were mutilated Treatment of Native Americans has improved very little

Disappearing Culture

Massacre effect on Native American culture History of forced assimilation Current trends in loss of language

Representation & Feasibility

Realistic symbol of American history Simple: Bronze Cost: $10 million

We found many things, such as Indian baby skulls; many skulls of men and women; arrows, some perfect, many broken; spears, scalps, knives, cooking utensils, and many other things too numerous to mention.

-General William T. Shermans Army

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Photo by: Jeff Bransford

Photo by: Stokely Baksh

allisonl@iastate.edu

Works Cited
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Sand Creek. 2000. Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition. Ed. Robert Atwan. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 402-407. Print.

National Park Service. US Marine Corps War Memorial. History & Culture. National Park Service, October 2013. Web. 29 October 2013
"Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site." National Parks Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2013.

Works Cited
Baksh, Stokely. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 2012. Photograph. Washington D.C.

Bransford, Jeff. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. N.d. Photograph. Chivington, CO. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. 2010. Photograph. Chivington, CO.