NEW YORK — The United Methodist Church (UMC) is making good on a pledge to support a learning center at the site of an 1864 massacre of American Indians 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, Colo.
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.
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