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# UNUM Short: Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/unum/episode/unum-short-remembering-the-sand-creek-massacre-bo70ng/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:16:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T07:58:54.000Z
- Description: Ken Burns considers how we ought to remember dark parts of our history.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Ken Burns UNUM, Season 2022, Episode 9, #ZZZ_Episode_bcef5404-bd2d-4231-9517-0251bbde43ca, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_7a735c68-f2d1-433e-af04-b6191f0d9ef3, #v1.16

In 2007, the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site became the only National Park Service unit to use "massacre" in its name, acknowledging a horrific act of state-sponsored violence. In this UNUM Short, Ken Burns tells the story of the tragedy at Sand Creek, and the push to recognize it for what it truly was.