Denver: The Governor of Colorado Jared Polis on Tuesday canceled the 19th century proclamation called for citizens to kill native Americans and take their property, in what he hoped to be able to set up the errors for “1864 sins by Colorado.
Territorial Governor , John Evans, in the end it would lead to Massacre Sand Creek, one of the darkest and most full of Colorado’s historic moments.
Brutal attacks left more than 200 people Arapaho and Cheyenne – mostly women, children and elderly.
Proclamation Evans.
Never Legitimate because it determines the rights of the Federal Indian Agreement and Law, said the policy at the signing of the executive command in the Capitol steps.
“It also directly contradicts the Colorado Constitution, the Constitution of the United States and the Colorado criminal code at that time,” Democrats.
“Governor said to Whoops from the crowd.
Polis stands with residents of South Ute, Ute Mountain, Cheyenne and Tribe Arapaho, many traditional dresses R Egalia.
Some signs held read “recognize the original knowledge, people, land” and “deconize to survive.
“Ernest House Jr, who served as executive director of the Colorado Commission India under the former Governor of John Hickenlooper, said the order of the policy was important.
For the relationship between government-to-government government with tribes, historical recognition, and movement towards reconciliation.
“I think there must be a general community thinking of American Indians as a missing race, people who disappear.
And I think it starts with things like this,” said House, a citizen of the Ute Ute Ute tribe.
“This gives us an important place for us and that our lives are important.
” The wider boost for racial reconciliation and calculation has occurred in the US after George Floyd’s death in the hands of the police, including efforts to remove the confederation of monuments and statues of slave merchants, invaders , conqueror and other.
Some countries, including Colorado, have prohibited the original American mascot in school.
The movement coupled with new attention to the history of Evans also pushed the policy to recommend changing names to recommend the highest peak in the range of the front range of the Rocky Mountains, known as “Mountain Evans.
” Discussion occurred in the Indian Colorado Commission to choose “a culturally sensitive name, ” said Alston Turtle, a member of the Mountain Tribe Ute.
Evans regulates the Colorado region for three years of civil war, from 1862 to 1865.
He resigned Self after Sand Creek massacre took place under his order.
Colonel John Chivington led the massacre November 29, 1864, he and his army then went to Denver, where they showed a portion of the remnants of the victims.
The massacre was one of some terrible events that was very terrible which was not known by many Americans, such as a snake river attack in Oregon in 1887, where as many as 34 Chinese gold miners were killed.
The others happen in the lives of many Americans who live today, such as the 1985 bombings by the Philadelphia police from a home office The center of the black organization, killed 11 people.
Rick Williams, a descendant of Lakota and C Heyenne who studied the history of the original population of Americans, found Evans’s original order when researching after the Fort Wise agreement in 1861, where US government representatives met with Cheyenne and Arapaho leaders to build reservations along Arkansas.
River in Colorado Timur.
Williams said only 10 people signed an agreement.
“The next two years, it was hell for Indians because they did not sign the agreement, and they tried to kill as much as possible from them.
And when it was unsuccessful, (Evans) issued an order to declare the war” Williams said.
One of Evans’s commandments considered the American native “enemy of the country,” and the second calling for the residents of Colorado to kill and steal from them, Williams said.
Colorado Governor Void 1864 to kill native Americans
