EADS, Colo. (KOAA) — Thursday’s annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run is proceeding as planned thanks to an injection of state money from History Colorado.

Multiple sources confirmed History Colorado donated a little over $2,000 to the National Park Service (NPS) to allow the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site to open up for the first time since the government shutdown.

History Colorado is a charitable organization and an agency of the State of Colorado under the Department of Higher Education, according to its website .

In Denver, the History Colorado Center has an extensive exhibit highlighting the Sand Creek Massacre, with close ties to the descendants of the hundreds of peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho people murdered by US troops in 1864.

The annual Healing Ru

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