Unlike many exhibitions at history museums, this Sand Creek Massacre exhibit unravels in the first person.
It came after multiple promises that Native Americans would be protected, compensated, permitted to survive after decades of violence perpetrated upon them. It was, as the exhibition tells us, the worst betrayal in Colorado history.
As far as history exhibitions go, this one is short on actual artifacts. There are photos and copies of letters and treaties, and proclamations. One poster, in particular — in which a local official based in Central City tries to raise an army of 100 to fight against “Indians” and promises good pay and the opportunity to share in “all horses and other plunder taken” from them — gets right at the callous attitude that early white inhabitants carried toward indigenous humans.
It all spells out who the villains of the time were — ranging from Abraham Lincoln, who from afar broke government promises made to tribes; to Rocky Mountain News editor William Byers, who stirred up anti-native sentiments; to Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans, who was directly and repeatedly responsible for multiple atrocities and who personally promised that the tribes would be safe at their camp on Big Sandy Creek.
There is also a very simple video, taken recently, at the actual site at Sand Creek, which is projected onto the walls of a dark and enclosed room set up within the show. No humans are in the scenery, just clouds, bird songs and flora, capturing a typical sunrise. Such a peaceful place, by nature, yet the video serves as a powerful juxtaposition of what we all know really happened there.
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