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[Allison]

Hello, Everyone,

"Ghosts of Sand Creek", 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.

In "Ghosts of Sand Creek", Cheyenne descendants of the
Sand Creek Massacre will tell their oral histories. These
oral histories depict hands on experience their ancestors experienced during their evolution with the United States government. These histories will show how peace treaties from 1825 to 1890 removed the Cheyenne and Arapaho people from their land. Originally having 51 million acres that spread from the Platte River in Wyoming to the Arkansas River in the Colorado Territory east to the Nebraska Plains, and west to the Rocky Mountains, the United States government reduced their land to a few hundred acres each of mostly worthless land for growing crops to sustain native people who had always followed the buffalo.

Betrayal by the United States government, the
massacre and the aftermath of it, continues to
stalk the Cheyenne and Arapaho people today in their
efforts to be paid monies owed to them by the United
States government, which numbers into the billions of
dollars. Negotiating peace treaties with the Cheyennes
without giving the tribes legal representation, land patents, securities, animals, goods and provisions to amend for the outrages against individual Indians of certain bands camped at Sand Creek during the 1864 massacre, tools, equipment, livestock, and training as agreed upon in the treaties and without fulfilling the conditions of these treaties, the government continues to exploit the tribes by prolonging the law suits without being proactive.

The subsequent action of these treaties resulted
in the exploitation of these 51 million acres of the tribes' lands that continues to result in natural gas, ranching, oil, agriculture, lumber, mining, etc. royalties that go to government and private industries. In return, the tribes have received disease, abject poverty, hunger, alcohol and drug abuse, high unemployment, lack of appropriate housing and health assistance, lack of education, homelessness, and, for many, not enough resources to even buy toilet paper.

In order to alleviate this betrayal, several law suits
have been filed by the tribes against the United
States government for repayment to help bring
them out of the dire living conditions that plague
many of them and to enhance the future for their
children and grandchildren to bring them up to
speed with all Americans who experience
prosperity and abundance, and to preserve
their heritage.

"Ghosts of Sand Creek", principally based on
the oral histories of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
people, will tell their story so that others can
learn of the injustices committed by Americans
on America's native people. In turn, the film
will inform and educate others and create
awareness so that all Americans will have
the opportunity to learn of the present tribes' dire
situation and to become proactive about
changing it.

The All Roads Seed Money grant offered by
National Geographic that I wrote and
submitted was passed on. I continue to
work on the ITVS grant and other potential
sources of funding. Since the American
economy has been plunged into its darkest
history brought on by self interest and
greed, many funding sources are drying up,
while many others are cutting back on monies
granted and given.

Until money is put in place, I encourage
each one of you to continue to keep your
doors open to helping me make the film,
each based on your particular expertise.
You are included in a group of people
who are some of the most talented and
gifted people in film and Hollywood and
each of you posses the energy and passion to help
me make "Ghosts of Sand Creek" everything
it should be. Supported by 15,000 members
of the Sand Creek Massacre Descendants'
Trust, all of us are part of carving a new
path for these people as well as all
American natives.

I am always open to comments, questions,
and suggestions as to how to enhance the
making of "Ghosts of Sand Creek", so please
contact me at your convenience with your
suggestions, comments, and/or questions.

Until the next update, may peace and love
be with you.

Best Regards,
Don

Donald L. Vasicek
OLYMPUS FILMS+, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.comdvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103

"No matter what your problem, the karmic roots of the problem will be found in past lives." -Dick Sutphen