National parks and historic sites, including two prominent Colorado sites whose stories involve darker chapters in American history, were directed earlier this summer by the Trump administration to post signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans,” triggering concerns that difficult narratives could be sanitized.
The signs went up in mid-June at both the Amache site near the southeastern town of Granada that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II and the Sand Creek Massacre site where U.S. troops killed hundreds of peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in 1864 at their encampment near present-day Eads.
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