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Need for Reckoning before Healing

A Healing Trial is important, but we need to reckon with the difficult past before we can begin healing

When entering the Fort Chambers site people should encounter things that lead them to reckon with the difficult past that took place here. This includes to greed for land and power on the part of some settler/colonizers and the false information they spread to create fear in the local settler/colonizers. Fear an effect way to control people, This dynamic still plays out in our country, and telling the truth about our past is one way to keep this from happening again.

A representation of the fort could be part of this.

Another part could be re-installing the stone marker with an explanation that as recently as the 1960s people were still referring to an "Indian uprising" in the area that never actually happened

Large signage depicting what happened here leading up to the Sand Creek Massacre would also be important. We need to create an experience that allows people to FEEL it.




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