Sarah Stacke

Upon the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Native Americans suffered unimaginable levels of death from flu, smallpox, and measles. Pictured here is the cemetery at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cherry Creek, established by missionaries in 1894. In 1881, many Lakota who had fled to Canada after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, returned to Cherry Creek, and after Sitting Bull’s murder in 1890, many of his supporters fled there. March 6, 2021.