The Sand Creek Massacre

Students will engage in an intensive examination of the Sand Creek Massacre in order to understand the unique historical experience, values, practices and aspirations of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Through examination of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, students will increase their understanding of the Sand Creek Massacre, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal history, organization and culture and the interaction between the Cheyenne and Arapaho people and the Anglo/European groups that explored and colonized the United States. Prior to the beginning of this Unit, students will define the terms and use pictorials of each to increase pre-understanding of common terminology used during this era.

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–Award-winning Sand Creek Massacre Documentary Short(6:37)/
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–Sand Creek Massacre Documentary Presentation (20:56)/Lesson
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“We have some work to do for America’s native people. Even though we live in a troubled world, how can we be helpful to other countries when we are allowing native people to suffer as they have been ever since they were decimated in 1849 by the cholera epidemic introduced by migrant Anglo/Europeans? “Ghosts of Sand Creek” aims to inform, to educate and to create awareness for America’s native people by lobbying Congress to require native studies curriculums for all schools in America. The more people who contribute to the making of this film, the better case we will have to present to Congress. Why don’t you join us today and become part of American history? We need your help.”

-Donald L. Vasicek
Award-Winning Writer/Filmmaker

FUNDING
Goal
$2.5 million
Q: How will these funds be used?
A: Funding for “Ghosts of Sand Creek”, a feature documentary film. Development. Pre-Production. Production. Post Production. Marketing.

Q: What is the name of the legal entity behind this project?
A: Olympus Films+, LLC
7078 South Fairfax Street
Centennial, CO 80122 USA
303-903-2103

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As a stepping stone to help native people in America, I am making a documentary film about peace treaties from 1825 through 1890 the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes agreed to without legal representation, with the United States government.  By betraying these agreements, the United States government and private individuals bilked the Cheyenne and Arapaho people out of 51 million acres of land. The government and these individuals have amassed billions of dollars in profit from these lands via natural gas, oil, lumber, farming, ranching, land patents, securities, animals, goods and provisions, mining, etc.

In return, the Cheyenne and Arapaho people have experienced white man diseases, abject poverty, hunger, alcohol and drug abuse, high unemployment, lack of appropriate housing and health assistance, lack of
education, homelessness, racism, genocide, discrimination and, for many, not enough resources to even
buy toilet paper.  Many of them, including thousands of other native people live in Third World conditions, in the United States of America. While the U. S. government pours billions of dollars into other countries and regions of the world like Darfur to help them out, they let America’s natives suffer.

I ask the questions, what about America’s native people? Without taking care of Indian people in the United States of America, what chance does America have to survive?

It is time, now, to act. Enough of broken promises, self-interest, and greed, America’s natives must take charge of their lives, or they will leave this earth forever.

In order to educate, to inform, and to create awareness for all native people in America, the American Indian Genocide Museum and the 15,000 members of the Sand Creek Massacre Descendant’s Trust are giving support to my film, “Ghosts of Sand Creek.” This film will show the deprivations and depredations most all native’s ancestors suffered at the hands of the United States government.  This film will be told through the eyes of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people via their oral histories.

The intentions of the film is to gain enough exposure to force the United States government to fulfill its obligations regarding the 1867 Treaty of Little Arkansas, to make reparations for monies, land, and goods by the United States government to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes to complete their duty according to this particular treaty.

Success here will cause a domino effect that will cause the government to fulfill its duty to fulfill its obligations regarding other peace treaties throughout the land. In turn, the reward of monies owed to all native tribes can result in combating disease, improve education, destroy poverty,hunger, high unemployment, homelessness, health assistance, racism, genocide, discrimination, and the ability
for everyone to buy toilet paper.

It is past time for America’s native people to rise up and transcend these problems and make a prominent place for themselves in their country.  With the newly-elected administration, I believe that this is even more
likely than ever before. But, I need your support.

“Ghosts of Sand Creek”, is a two-hour, six episode documentary film about the descendants and ancestors of the Sand Creek Massacre, which occurred on November 29, 1864 in the southeastern Colorado Territory, is in development.

Coming on the heels of the award-winning Sand Creek Massacre trailer, the award-winning six and one-half minute documentary and the award-winning 22-minute documentary, that is being distributed by Films Media Group, “Ghosts of Sand Creek” is delving more deeply into the Cheyenne and Arapaho people and how the massacre has stalked them up to the present time.

I am writing to ask each one of you to help me raise the money to make this film to helpout those who are less fortunate than we are. The budget is $2 million. It is my belief that I need to keep pushing until I realize
my goal of helping out America’s native people the way I can, and that is through filmmaking which creates massive exposure for America’s natives.

Until money is place for “Ghosts of Sand Creek”, I am unable to mention names. I can say that I have attached a major motion picture actor to the film, an Academy Award-Winning Cinematographer and Filmmaker, five Emmy Award winners, and one Emmy Award nominee.  They have agreed to work on the film because of their passion for helping out America’s natives.

Please tell your friends. Thank you for your consideration and support.

Best Regards,

Donald L. Vasicek
OLYMPUS FILMS+, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting

http://www.donvasicek.com

dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103

“We’ve used a passive approach to the telling of the brutality at Sand Creek for the purpose of showing the ignorance of utilizing killing as a means to solve problems. Violence always leaves an impact, but the graphicness of the murders, the rapes, the mutilations, even after people were dead, leaves a remarkable imprint on students, parents, and educators. They see an historic reality that motivates them to do more to circumvent violence in the present as a means to solve problems. And that includes fourth graders who viewed the film in an elementary school in Centennial, Colorado who shared their thoughts with me after the screening.”

-Donald L. Vasicek
Award-Winning Writer/Filmmaker/Consultant

“We Cannot Be Who We Are Not” “Always keep in mind that the main issue which has led to so many other issues is land. The earth has always been the Cheyenne/Arapaho’s power. As their lands dwindled because of European immigration, their power dwindled.  Today, most older, and many younger Native Americans are living without that power. Instead, they are living on reservations that yield little, ifany resources. This has reduced Native Americans
to a cross between their native heritage and the incursion of others into their space. Many know little about moving forward, because the past is where all of their power resides, and, it is gone.

Native Americans are born to roam the earth.  Many of their ancestors went where the buffalo went. The buffalo were the source of their existence. In the beginning, the Cheyenne and Arapaho people had 51 million acres of land. They were free. They lived with the elements and they prospered. Today, most conceive themselves as prisoners of a society that has little bearing to who they really are, what they inherited from their ancestors, not too unlike each one of us.  How can we be who we are not? The answer is, we cannot be who we are not, and until we discover who we are, then live that way, is when we experience the ultimate peace of who we are. It is my belief that most Native Americans are not who the society they live in forces
them to be, in order to survive.

So, if you surround yourself with this attitude, with this approach, with this theme, then, everything else you are being asked about which to understand, will fall into place.”

-Donald L. Vasicek

“Award-Winning Sand Creek Massacre Film Archived”

August 27, 2008 — CENTENNIAL, CO — Golden Drover Award winner for Best Native American Film in the Trail Dance Film Festival, “The Sand Creek Massacre”, has been archived in The Billie Jean Baguley Library in the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

Award-winning Writer/Filmmaker/Consultant, Donald L. Vasicek,
said, “By having the film archived in these prestigious institutions,
my goal of informing, educating and creating awareness for the
Cheyenne and Arapaho people via their oral histories in the film,
helps all American native people. The Cheyenne and Arapaho
people, vowed, after the Sand Creek Massacre, that they would live
on this earth forever. The film keeps their dream alive regardless
of the genocide that has stalked all American native people from
the inception of European people’s arrival on their lands to the present.
The film is a permanent recording of their ancestors and who they are as
a people.”

Vasicek continues his efforts to record the Cheyenne and Arapaho
history. He has placed, “Ghosts of Sand Creek”, a two-hour, six
episode series, into development. Vasicek said, “Ghosts of Sand
Creek” will dimensionalize the Cheyenne and Arapaho people’s
story. It will show the white man’s continuing invasion of their human
rights.

“I read recently where actor Brad Pitt raised $500,000 for
people in Darfur. He should now raise money for American native
people so that they can also eat. Walk down the main street
in Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne’s reservation.
Cruise the Northern Arapaho Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
American natives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
need groceries, socks, underwear, shirts, shoes, trousers, fuel to
keep warm, etc. And they have to go across the border into
Nebraska to buy liquor. You will experience, as I have, many times
over, the abject poverty American natives experience. This is
genocide at its finest in all centuries.”

Vasicek said, “America’s native people need America’s help. Be part
of ‘Ghosts of Sand Creek’.” Go to donvasicek.com for details.

Contact:

Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC

http://www.donvasicek.com

dvasicek@earthlink.net