From Sand Creek Salish (Séliš) For Indigenous Minds Only

For Indigenous Minds Only

"The Red Nation has given us The Red Deal

and learn to respect ourselves and the land we share

On a winter's day many years later

Aanjibimaadizing

From Sand Creek Salish (Séliš) For Indigenous Minds OnlyThe massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U. S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small press edition, from Sand Creek makes a