🪶 Indigenous Roots: Today in History… December 3, 1850 – This isn’t the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. This is the Sandy Lake Tragedy in what’s now Minnesota, sometimes called the Ojibwe Trail of Tears. That fall, the U.S. government ordered thousands of Ojibwe men to travel to Sandy Lake to pick up their annual treaty payments, then delayed the annuities for weeks while winter closed in. When the goods finally showed up, much of the food was spoiled or watered down, and people had already st

3.9K views · 144 reactions | We’re preparing for the opening of “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever” exhibition at the History Colorado Center in Denver. Please join us for the public commemoration on Saturday, November 19, at 10 am. This event is included in general admission which is free every day for those 18 and under. | History Colorado | Facebook