Tag
indigenous history
7 Porch Notes tagged “indigenous history,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Archuleta County
The ancient sky-watchers of Chimney Rock
The ruins at Chimney Rock were a high-elevation Ancestral Puebloan village tied to the Chaco world, built where two stone spires frame events in the sky.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
We Are the Land connects Native Denver history to real places
We Are the Land uses Native oral histories and Tribal convenings to tie Denver's living memory to the physical places preservation tools cover.
Read note ->History and culture - Moffat County
Northwest Colorado was Ute homeland, and that history deserves care
The land that became Moffat County was long the homeland of Ute people, and their removal in the late 1800s opened it to settlement — a history worth learning from official and tribal sources.
Read note ->History and culture - Grand County
Long before the towns, Middle Park was Ute hunting ground
The high valley that holds Grand County's towns was a long-used hunting ground and gathering place for Ute people, including the hot springs at Hot Sulphur Springs.
Read note ->History and culture - Boulder County
Boulder's history includes a hard link to the Sand Creek Massacre
The City of Boulder publicly documents that a local company trained at Fort Chambers before taking part in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Arapaho and Cheyenne people.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
The Ute people and their trails across Mesa County
Long before the Grand Valley's towns, the Ute people lived in and traveled across what is now Mesa County, and some of their trails are documented at official heritage sites.
Read note ->History and culture - Alamosa County
Alamosa County sits inside a national heritage area
Alamosa County is part of the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, a congressionally designated region that honors the layered Indigenous, Hispano, and other cultures of the San Luis Valley.
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