Once dedicated to commemorating Kit Carson, the Fort Garland Museum's new exhibit acknowledges the brutal effects that westward expansion and settler-colonialism had on Indigenous and Native Americans.
Artist jetsonorama creates new installation at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center
Juan Carson, an enslaved Navajo youth (center) and Gabriel Woodson, an enslaved Navajo person in the San Luis Valley, circa 1880 (right). From Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center (June 2021ongoing). Image: History Colorado.
FORT GARLAND, COLO
.- A new installation by artist jetsonorama is now on view at History Colorado s Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center in the San Luis Valley. Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado incorporates historic photos of Indigenous captives and images from an 1865 census of enslaved Indigenous people in present-day Conejos and Costilla Counties. On display in one of the forts original adobe buildings constructed in 1858, Unsilenced is organized by jetsonorama and Eric Carpio, Director of Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center and Chief Community Museum Officer for History Col
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