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Announcing a New PACES Grant to Build Local Community Connections around the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

The Center for the American West (CAW) and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS), in partnership with the , are launching a new project to support community-building efforts in Kiowa County and Eads, CO near the . SCMF is the non-profit partner for this National Park Service (NPS) site. SCMF works to broaden the site’s efforts to educate the public about the legacies of the 1864 massacre for Cheyenne and Arapaho people, Eastern Plains communities, and American society more broadly. The proposed project responds to a direct request from SCMF. CAW, CNAIS, and Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder can offer valuable support to SCMF in carrying out its mission to raise awareness about the massacre. The project offers an opportunity for Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder students to build their capacity for community-engaged scholarship with direct faculty mentorship and collaboration. It allows CAW to solidify an external partnership that aligns directly with CAW’s mission to explore the ongoing complexities and challenges of the western U.S. And it builds upon CAW’s long-standing Indigenous Connections program – a project initiated at Rocky Mountain National Park and extended to the Zane Grey Museum NPS site. Partnering with SCMF allows us to apply our Indigenous Connections work to a site that was built with tribal partner collaboration but has never received full-fledged federal support. Recent changes in the federal landscape, moreover, make this partnership more important than ever before.