Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes say renaming Mount Evans would help educate and heal
Now is the time to educate the youth of both Colorado and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes about the Sand Creek Massacre, tribal representatives recently told commissioners in Clear Creek, Colo.
In November, the Oklahoma-based Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes filed a federal petition to rename Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, a name significant to both tribes.
In 1864, Colorado’s then-territorial Gov. John Evans is believed to have authorized the Sand Creek Massacre in which American soldiers fired on and killed Cheyenne and Arapaho citizens.