The Sand Creek Massacre took place on November 29th, 1864. On October 9th, 2022 we gathered to witness, memorialize, and reflect on the historic events leading up to and on that infamous day and understand its ongoing effects on the descendants in the present.  We extend heartfelt gratitude for your visit here to learn of the history of Boulder, Colorado by watching the video of the event “Re-membering 1864: From Fort Chambers to Sand Creek…The Future is NOW.”  

Our primary goal was for hearts to meet and touch each other. For this to happen, we chose a non-didactic format. Our secondary goal was to foster concrete change in public understanding, land return/land use, participation in local governance and local community life for the original indigenous inhabitants of Boulder Valley - in other words, justice. Creating common public memory of the violent history and ongoing impact of Boulder’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre and subsequent forced removal of Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples from Boulder Valley is essential to this gosl.

Boulder community members courageously showed up to listen deeply to some of the direct descendants of survivors and perpetrators of the Sand Creek Massacre tell their stories, share their poems, and sing their songs in mourning for this brutal and inhumane historic event that is a part of the living landscape that is Boulder, Colorado.