Who claimed the land we now know as Boulder? From archaeological evidence as well as oral histories, we know that Indigenous people have lived in Boulder for more than 13,000 years. All told, some fifty modern tribes were in Colorado before white settlement. For hundreds of years, Ute territory and hunting grounds spanned all of […]
Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, an opportunity to honor those who came before us on these lands in Summit County. The recent history of establishing Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a bit confusing. Some states and.
(CNN) On one cold November morning in 1864, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members, mostly women and children, were murdered in one of<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/colorado-peak-named-after-former-governor-linked-to-massacre-of-indigenous-people-renamed-mount-blue-sky/">Read More</a>
The story of the brothers and nephew who killed dozens of southern Colorado settlers in the 1860s is part history, part legend … and altogether grisly.