Event
Healing Journey Home
Fee:
Free.Location:
Visitor CenterDates & Times
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Type of Event
8:45a-1:00p Registration for the Healing Journey 5K 9:00a Opening Remarks 9:15a Healing Journey Begins 2:00p Healing Journey Ends, Closing Remarks 2:15p Highway 47A reopens for traffic
Description
The Healing Journey Home is 5 kilometers commemorating the release of 53 Cheyenne women and children on June 13, 1869 from Ft. Hays after nearly 7 months of imprisonment since the Washita attack on November 27, 1868. The captives arrived at Camp Supply on June 22, 1869, where the winter campaign began and led to the Washita attack. The 5K incorporates Highway 47A and the park’s trail. Participants must walk along the trail as a time for reflection. At least 20 interpretive panels with inspirational quotes and historic speech remarks will be displayed along the route, making the event a journey of remembrance and reconciliation. The Healing Journey Home begins and ends at the Visitor Center. Participants may start at any time after 9:00 a.m. and must finish before 2:00 p.m. The first 75 participants will receive a commemorative Healing Journey Peace Medal. After the Healing Journey Home, participants and the community or encouraged to join us for a poetry workshop and reading from a great friend and supporter of Washita Battlefield National Historic Site and an Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nominee, Dorothy Alexander.