Where:Cheyenne, Oklahoma
Last year, our China Exchange Program teachers from China went on the trip of a lifetime to Yellowstone National Park only to find out the Park was closed due to the government shot down. What a luck! I, too, want to see Yellowstone. One of our inspirations for Greenbelt Meridian, in fact is a grey wolf from Yellowstone. However, when we decided to pay Yellowstone National Park a visit, we were informed most of the parks facilities, roads, and services are shut down by November. James and I started looking at our options for visiting the Greenbelt Meridian sites.in far western of OK. There was a National Park there, on the map, the Washita Battlefield in Cheyenne, Oklahoma. It also felt worthwhile to spend Thanksgiving with the spirits of Native Americans.
The surprise attack on a Southern Cheyenne village by Lt. Col. George A. Custer killed Peace Chief Black Kettle and his wife along with women, children and more than 600 horses on November 27, 1858 made Washita a sacred site . These grounds now stand as mute testimony to those who fought and died there for their way of life.
This year, November 27 , the memorial date happened to also be Thanksgiving day. The Visitor Center at the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site was open and when we called we found out there would be a candle light vigil on Thanksgiving Day evening!
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| A mural portraits a peaceful day before the attack. |
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| Walking toward the dry-out Washita River |
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