Fort Chambers / Poor Farm Site Planning

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  3 days ago

  Posted on behalf of Carol Affleck and Shirley Schaller:

  "We envision a healing trail on the southern portion of the property as shown on your drawing map. The trail should be a truthful timeline of events, with interpretive signage for both the Tribes and the Settler/Homesteaders. Native and prairie plants might be included along the trail.

  Address what other troops from where in Colorado participated in Sand Creek. There was no battle at Fort Chambers. The settlers built the sod fort for safe shelter as evidenced in oral histories, prior to the troops training at the fort for 20 days... Continue reading
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  Comments from Iayana - What Happened, How Did We Get Here

  3 days ago

  Posted on behalf of Iayana:

  "First -- i think Ava Hamilton's question at Ernest's excellent workshop (Thank You, City ) deserves full focused consideration and deliberation. I know this is hard to hear. She asked why a healing trail would be designed to be at the Fort. A multitude of Indigenous people, including many who unlike Ava are not direct descendents of Leaders massacred in 1864, have explicitly stated their wish to not go near the Fort Chambers site where people trained to kill their relatives.

  It seems impractical to have the place where men trained for the massacre serve... Continue reading
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  I didn’t know. Why?

  by Jerilyn , 4 days ago
  My Story about Fort Chambers is that I’ve lived in Boulder since 1984 and I didn’t learn the story of Fort Chambers until the City acquired it in 2019. Then what I saw was a monument that was a monumental lie. Being a tribal member i was aware of and used to this kind of display of ignorance. It was, and in many, but thankfully fewer places, is common where Indians are concerned. Still, it strung because it felt willful and so wrong and out of place and time in 2019.

  
  I think most people in Boulder would say they... Continue reading
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  What Happened, How Did We Get Here continued

  by Iayana, 4 days ago

  The Battle at Sand Creek

  Written by Morse H. Coffin in a series of articles to the Colorado Sun, 1879. Excerpt only.

  
  

  “I now desire to mention a few things in order to make plain the general opinion among the people at that time regarding Indian killing, and thus account in some degree for the scalping indulged in at Sand Creek, and which is now condemned by many good persons. At the time the 3d Colorado regiment was raised, the idea was very general that a war of extermination should be waged; that neither sex nor age should be spared... Continue reading
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  The ideal opportunity to connect a myriad of Colorado indigenous stories and reckon with the past

  by PMcEntee, 4 days ago

  With the exception of the Ute, Colorado/the Federal Government is neglectful in ever having provided trust land in the form of reservations to the native peoples who historically frequented these lands of CO. There are stories and histories intertwined with native peoples and homesteaders, and yet, even after the Sand Creek Massacre, lands that were given to descendants for reparations, were eventually transferred to whites who married into the families of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Historic Boggsville in Las Animas is an example of this, but there are many more stories and also many we have never heard because we... Continue reading
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  Reflections on 3/21 Fort Chambers Concept Meeting

  by jhouston, 4 days ago

  We are deeply embedded in Native community here through found family, friendship, ceremony, and a collective effort to unforget the true history of the land and people here in the context of vitalizing an Indigenous future. We attended the March 21st concept meeting to better understand how the Boulder community sees this process. After multiple follow up conversations to sort out my thinking, I want to share some of my personal reflections:

  • There was one comment to “not forget the white story”. In the recounting of this history, there is no white vs Native story. There is one story and... Continue reading
• Share Please, please, please stop calling this a "Healing Trail" on Facebook Share Please, please, please stop calling this a "Healing Trail" on Twitter Share Please, please, please stop calling this a "Healing Trail" on Linkedin Email Please, please, please stop calling this a "Healing Trail" link

  Please, please, please stop calling this a "Healing Trail"

  by Dewi Sungai, 4 days ago

  I am a displaced Indigenous woman (Ngaju Dayak from Borneo, adopted as a baby by white Americans, now residing in Louisville with my husband and daughter) in close community with Native people across the Front Range. I don't know a single Native person here who believes anything about this plot to be "healing." To declare this a "Healing Trail," even when addressing non-Native people, feels arrogant and presumptuous on the city's part. Who are you all to tell me what's healing, or where I am personally in that process, or what my experience is walking this plot of land? How... Continue reading
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  Moving With Our History

  by Alison Takenaka, 4 days ago

  What would it be like for visitors of all ages to experience this site as its own history unfolded in similarity and in contrast to the history of the Native-Indigenous stewards of this sacred land and this land herself? Perhaps visitors can proceed in a loop that includes 1) a land acknowledgement written by Native-Indigenous elders, 2) the pre-fort history of this sacred land and the Native-Indigenous stewards entrusted with its care and keeping, 3) a type of reconstruction of a simple Fort structure and clear history of the Sand Creek Massacre including and not limited to the truth-telling and... Continue reading
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  Silas Soule

  by phmurphy, 7 days ago
  

  He was at the massacre but refused to participate and then testified and was later assassinated.

  He is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Denver. And has been honored by the Arapahoe.

  Silas Stillman Soule (/soʊl/ SOHL; July 26, 1838 – April 23, 1865) was an American abolitionist, a teenage 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and an early example of what would later be called a whistleblower. As a Kansas Jayhawker, he supported and was a proponent of John Brown's movement in the time of strife leading up... Continue reading
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  land Acknowledgment

  by mlRobles, 10 days ago

  At the very least, the City of Boulder should acknowledge that this land is not ours.. "The City of Boulder acknowledges the city is on the ancestral homelands and unceded territory of Indigenous Peoples who have traversed, lived in and stewarded lands in the Boulder Valley since time immemorial. ..."