Methodists give $50,000 for massacre memorial
The United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a
learning center at the western site of an 1864 massacre of Native
Americans led by a Methodist minister.
The UMC's General
Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns announced a
$50,000 donation to the National Park Service for developing a center at
the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, near Eads, Colorado.
The donation will be used to fund research materials and other public
education initiatives.
The donation is the latest in a series of
acts by which Methodists have apologized for the actions of Col. John
Chivington, a Methodist minister who led an 1864 attack against members
of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes along the banks of Sand Creek. Some
165 people—mostly women, children and the elderly—were killed in the
attack.
