Sand Creek Massacre: 04 Causes and Consequences - Henrietta Mann

Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Sand Creek Massacre - a tragedy that occurred on November 29,1864. In this segment, Henreitta Mann speaks on "The Tsistsistas and Hinónóéí Road to Sand Creek."

Dr. Mann holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Professor Emerita of Native American Studies, Montana State University (MSU) and also Special Assistant to the President of MSU, she is on leave helping to create the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. She has contributed to documentaries In the White Man's Image, Paha Sapa: Struggle for the Black Hills, How the West Was Lost, and The West. She spoke on Sand Creek at the 2014 United Methodist Church Rocky Mountain Conference, wrote the Sand Creek entry for the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, and is the author of Cheyenne and Arapaho Education: 1871-1982. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine named her to its Honor Roll of 10 top professors nation-wide. The symposium was recorded and webcast in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on October 9, 2014.