Methodists and the Sand Creek Massacre

A great article in Westward Magazine, about the Sand Creek Massacre. Part of the work of the New Buddhist Methodist Church (Satsang and Art Studio) is to cleanse the history, the past,  of we the people ( mea culpa. )

Here’s an intro to the article… Let there be peace on earth . . .

In late 1864, Territorial Governor John Evans and Colonel John Chivington, both ardent Methodists, founded the Denver Seminary, the forerunner of the University of Denver. Just a few weeks later Chivington led his volunteers on a raid of a peaceful camp of Arapaho and Cheyenne on Sand Creek; an estimated 200 people were killed, most of them women, children and elderly men. In 2013, in advance of DU’s 150th anniversary, the university launched an investigation into Evans’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre; the report of the John Evans Committee, released last summer, charged Evans with creating the climate that made the massacre possible.And the university didn’t stop its

via Sand Creek Massacre Symposium at DU May 22, 2015 | Westword.

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