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Public Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre (Hardcover, New)
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Public Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre (Hardcover, New)
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Many historical books have been written about the Sand Creek
massacre--some were sympathetic to the actions of Colonel
Chivington while others acknowledged the injustice. The Sand Creek
massacre is a complicated piece of Colorado history with very
little consensus. In the mid 1990s, Arapaho and Cheyenne people
started visiting the location where the massacre was believed to
have occurred with the permission of some local landowners. They
claimed that their communities continued to suffer from the
collective memories of the event, and they wanted to begin to heal
through spiritual cleansing rituals. This sparked a movement to
establish a memorial at the Sand Creek location. After nearly ten
years of extensive research financial negotiations and state and
federal lobbying efforts, the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic
Site was established as a national park by Congress. It opened to
the public in April of 2007. The Sand Creek Memorial National
Historic Monument stands out because it shows the US federal
government not only acknowledging wrongdoing towards American
Indian people but also attempting to memorialize that wrongdoing in
an official capacity. This memorial has set a unique precedent in
American history. Unlike other monuments, this one begins with an
acknowledgment of the injustice and tragedy that occurred at the
location. For this reason, the Sand Creek Massacre National Park
and Monument presents a unique opportunity to examine cultural
identity, history and national identity. While memorials that
acknowledge tragedy have been examined by scholars, this is usually
done after the completion of the design. The present study is
therefore unique because it also examines the unfolding of the
memorialization process prior to the completion of the memorial
design. This unique site posed an opportunity to examine how the US
dominant cultural interests would be able to manage such a tragic
and unflattering narrative while maintaining a cohesive national
identity in the face of such action. The site also presented an
excellent opportunity to examine the collective memory and
memorialization, in terms of the experience and cultural identity
of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, which is detailed in thus book.
Finally, this study also analyzes and interprets how a memorial can
contribute to long term peace and reconciliation interests amongst
ethnic groups formerly engaged in violent and intractable conflict.
Many discussions of collective memory utilize a specific
disciplinary perspective and methodology, but this unique book
integrates ethnographic, critical, rhetorical, and historical
methods of research. It also examines the performative and ritual
aspects of collective memory and not just the physical, textual and
historical artifacts of memory. As such, this study contributes to
the theoretical discussion of how collective memorialization
contributes to long term processes of peace and reconciliation.
This book will be a valuable resource to cultural anthropologists,
rhetoric and communication studies scholars, American Indian
studies scholars, peace studies and conflict resolution scholars,
historians, as well as critical theory and cultural studies
theorists.
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