Beyond Sand Creek
What if a group of Arapaho elders successfully regained some of their traditional homelands? "Beyond Sand Creek" is a story about the Arapaho efforts that include linking tribal youth to the tribe's traditional homeland by renewing the Arapaho language and culture in Northern Colorado. The land subject to repatriation is a parcel on which Fort Chambers was once located. The property is owned by the city of Boulder and managed by the Parks and Open Space Department. Fort Chambers was a military installation where the Colorado 3rd Company trained 100 Boulder volunteers who were dispatched to Sand Creek in 1864. where hundreds of Arapaho and Cheyenne tribal members were peacefully encamped. On November 29, 1864, were surprise attacked by Colorado 3rd. The slaughter is known as the Sand Creek Massacre. Arapaho tribal members recount the racist treatment they encountered as youth, and the discrimination continues today.