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Article: Rising from Sand Creek
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- December 8, 2004
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Norrell, Brenda
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
12-08-2004
Documentary to tell Cheyenne and Arapaho story
DENVER - When the military slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapaho women and
children at Sand Creek, they shattered the lives of future generations, the
descendants of the few children that survived the massacre 140 years ago.
Don Vasicek, board member of the American Indian Genocide Museum, is
producing a new documentary, "Sand Creek Massacre, A Lesson from American
History", that he hopes will allow Cheyenne and Arapaho to dissolve some of
the pain.
"They carry their own grieving from Sand Creek. Telling their own stories
is their release; they need to talk about it. They need to know that others