Ministry feels the pain of Northern Cheyenne

Otto Braided Hair, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, visits the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado, in this 2010 file photo. His great-grandparents escaped the massacre in 1864. UMNS PHOTOS BY GINNY UNDERWOOD

By Susan Kim, UMNS… NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, Mont.—On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, JuDee Anderson quietly listened as Otto Braided Hair spoke on behalf of the descendants of the Sand Creek massacre. Ms. Anderson is chair of the six-person Native American Ministry at the Sheridan United Methodist Church in Wyoming, about 100 miles from the reservation. On Nov. 29, 1864, a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians were surprised by a brutal nighttime attack. Two hundred Indians were murdered and mutilated by a group of volunteer U.S. cavalry led by [...]

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