Public Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre By Lindsay Calhoun

me with the utmost care and support, unreservedly offered and patiently maintained over the course of my life, but especially during this process. Thank you, Kara, Barry, Mom, and Dad, for all of your unconditional love, support, and patience.

I must also recognize the experts at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and the librarians at the University of Utah Department of Special Collections and the Denver Public Library, as well as the personnel at the Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives, the United States Holocaust Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian for assisting me and answering my questions. Some key scholars inspired my work and motivated me to write from a critical ethnographic perspective: Philip J. Deloria, Gerald Vizenor, Diana Taylor, Catherine Lutz, and Dwight Conquergood. They set examples of how to accomplish critical ethnographic inquiry. Finally, I must thank all those who diligently designed the sites of Iwo Jima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the World War II Memorial, and the Battle of Little Big Horn National Monument. Without these amazing memorializations, I would have had no context in which to write about and interpret Sand Creek.