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Colorado-based Mark Lee Gardner’s ninth book, THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS is a dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders.
They and their Sioux and Cheyenne warriors crushed Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the “Indian Wars.”
This epic battle was their greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life.
- play_arrowBooktalk: American West writer Mark Lee Gardner’s “THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation”KGNU News Top authors are interviewed on this 10-minute program that captures their words about their books and ideas and often the story behind the story. The show, hosted by Diana Korte and engineered by Gene Korte, has been in production for more than 25 years.
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Titulares 16 de Junio, 2022 play_arrowTitulares 16 de Junio, 2022Luis Licon (Descargar Audio)CDPHE Publica Los Datos Más Recientes De La Encuesta Healthy Kids Colorado*Los nuevos datos de la encuesta de niños sanos del Departamento de Salud Pública y Medio Ambiente de Colorado encontraron que casi el 40 por ciento de los jóvenes están experimentando depresión. Eso es un aumento del 5 por ciento con respecto al año pasado.
El uso de sustancias autoinformado (que incluye alcohol, marihuana y medicamentos recetados) disminuyó significativamente este año. Los jóvenes LGBTQ reportaron pensamientos y acciones suicidas significativamente más altos que sus pares heterosexuales y cisgénero.
Este año, el CDPHE examinó más de 100.000 respuestas a la encuesta. Algunos datos que se utilizan en la encuesta tienen que ver con cuestiones como el uso de sustancias, el acceso a las sustancias, el porcentaje de niños que se sintieron deprimidos y otros puntos. Si bien muchos gobiernos estatales y locales han asignado fondos para la salud mental pandémica, Colorado se ubica en el último en las encuestas nacionales sobre disponibilidad de servicios de salud mental.
Campamento de ResurgimientoLa organización sin fines de lucro Tiyospaye Winyan Maka y la anciana lakota Christinia Eala organizarán un campamento de resurgimiento este fin de semana en Fort Collins. El campamento celebrará a los Lakota y compartirá el conocimiento y la sabiduría de otros pueblos indígenas.
El evento de tres días incluirá talleres y presentaciones sobre artes indígenas, medicina y agricultura. Algunos invitados incluyen a la poeta internacional de la palabra hablada Lyla June, al realizador de documentales Quincy Davis y muchos más.
El terreno para acampar proporcionará espacio para tiendas de campaña y portalettes, pero no recipientes de agua portátiles ni equipo de campamento. La organización Tiyospaye Winyan Maka llevará a cabo la ceremonia de apertura esta tarde a las 5:00 PM.
Murciélago encontrado en el parque Thompson de Longmont da positivo por rabiaLos funcionarios de salud pública del condado de Boulder confirmaron que un murciélago encontrado en el Parque Thompson de Longmont el fin de semana pasado dio positivo por rabia. Los funcionarios de salud de la ciudad y el condado capturaron al murciélago después de que los residentes llamaran preocupados porque su mascota había estado en contacto con él. La rabia es una enfermedad infecciosa que afecta el sistema nervioso.
El BCPH recomienda que las personas tomen precauciones cuando se diviertan al aire libre al no interactuar con la vida silvestre que pueda tener rabia; estos incluyen murciélagos, zorrillos, mapaches y zorros. También se alienta a los dueños de mascotas a mantener las vacunas de sus mascotas al día.
Colorado Avalanche ganó el primer juego de las Finales de la Copa StanleyLos fanáticos de Denver se estaban volviendo locos anoche después de que Colorado Avalanche ganó el primer juego en una serie al mejor de cuatro contra el campeón defensor consecutivo Tampa Bay Lightning por cuatro a tres.
Los Avalanche están ahora a solo tres juegos de su primera victoria en la final de la Copa Stanley desde 2001. El segundo juego se lleva a cabo aquí en Denver en el estadio de ball el viernes por la noche a las 6 en punto.
La población de Boulder se reduce a medida que crece la de LongmontEl tamaño de la población de Longmont está a punto de superar al de Boulder. Los datos del censo de EE. UU. muestran que Longmont cruzó la marca de los 100 mil entre abril de 2020 y el año pasado.
The Daily Camera informa que Boulder sigue siendo la ciudad más poblada del condado de Boulder, sin embargo, su población disminuyó en alrededor de 4,000 residentes. La Oficina del Censo calcula el tamaño de la población cada año y, aunque no es 100 % preciso, basa sus estimaciones en los nacimientos, las muertes y la migración.
Muchas personas que viajan al trabajo en la ciudad de Boulder citan los altos costos de vivienda como la razón para vivir fuera de los límites de la ciudad.
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Headlines March 25, 2022Listen: play_arrowHeadlines — March 25, 2022Alexis Kenyon [Download Audio]Fires AroundThe Front Range: Boulder Apartment Fire Displaces 24 Boulder Families* Boulder firefighters responded to an early morning fire at two apartment buildings in the 2800 block of Kalmia Avenue. Dispatchers received a call regarding smoke at 4:53 a.m.
There were no reported injuries, but the fire displaced 24 families, according to The Daily Camera. Firefighters believe that all residents have evacuated. Boulder Fire-Rescue completely put out the blaze by about 9 a.m. The cause of the fire is unknown at the time, but investigators believe that it began in the upper part of one building and spread through the attic.
Fire Damages Parts Of Broncos Stadium In Denver A fire broke out in parts of the Denver Broncos’s Empower Field at Mile High Stadium on Thursday. According to stadium officials, the fire started in a construction zone near the East Club Lounge. Officials said that it burned through about 1,000 square feet until the fire was contained at about 2:45 PM. No one was injured by the fire and the area was quickly evacuated as a precaution.
The sprinkler system inside the stadium worked properly, but some of the blaze reached the outdoor seating area, which the sprinklers did not cover. Around 75 firefighters responded to the scene over the course of the day. Parts of the fourth and third levels of the stadium were damaged during the fire. Investigators don’t yet know what sparked the fire, but will assess structural damage to the stadium.
City of Longmont Conducting Prescribed Burns The City of Longmont began conducting three prescribed burns to clear vegetation on Thursday. The city is planning two additional burns that could take place before March 31. Officials say Longmont’s Ecosystem Management team will target three areas within the eastern, northeastern and southeastern parts of the city.
Longmont’s Fire Department will supervise the work. The city has asked residents to not call 911 if they see smoke or fire from those areas.Roads and walkways around the areas will be closed during the days of the prescribed burns. The city cautions that those with underlying health conditions should close their windows and stay inside if they smell smoke.
Prescribed burns can help the health of impacted ecosystems by controlling invasive species. They also clear excess dried plant life to reduce the risk of wildland fires.
Two neighboring cities, Louisville and Superior, were devastated by the Marshall Fire that destroyed 1,000 homes last year. Since that time, Longmont has reevaluated the city’s wildfire risks. On Wednesday, the City of Boulder announced it will conduct its own prescribed burns in open space agricultural areas throughout the year.
Boulder County Announces 2022 Sustainable Food And Agriculture Fund Recipients With Colorado’s Ag Week underway, Boulder County announced its 2022 Sustainable Food & Agriculture Fund recipients. The County named seven recipients, and an additional six recipients for smaller projects on Thursday.
Funding will go toward accelerating and launching environmental sustainability projects in Boulder County. The Sustainability Tax supports the fund.
This year’s recipients will use the funds to develop educational programs, support local food production, provide food and safety equipment for front line workers, implement regenerative practices, preserve heirloom grain seeds, and create pollinator habitats.
Climate Change Grant Program Receives Bipartisan Support The Denver Post reported Thursday that Colorado Democratic Rep. Jason Crow is working with Rep. David Rouzer of North Carolina to propose a $1.2 billion program to fund environmental protection initiatives. National and state-level environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, are among the supporters of this proposed bill.
If passed, the bill will provide $200 million each year as a part of a six-year grant program. State governments and Native American tribes will be able to apply for grants. The money will fund the development of natural disaster recovery programs to help reduce the impacts of climate change.
Colorado Sees Its First Legally Composted Human RemainsOn Sunday, a funeral home composted an unnamed person’s body after Colorado legalized the process as a greener alternative to cremation and traditional burial practices. The person elected to have their body transformed into the soil after passing away.
In May, Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill that legalizes the natural reduction process as a more environmentally friendly way to handle human remains.
The natural decomposition begins when a body is placed in an air-filtered chamber with wood chips, alfalfa, straw and microbes. The unnamed person’s body turned into compost after six months of this process. The remains were spread at the newly dedicated burial preserve outside of Colorado Springs. The state still prohibits the commercial sale of the soil that was used.
Boulder’s Fort Chambers Management Plan Underway Boulder is moving forward with a management plan for the Fort Chambers building. The structure is part of the historic 110-acre Boulder County Poor Farm located in East Boulder. The fort was used to train men into Company D of the Third Colorado Cavalry, who later took part in the Sand Creek Massacre. The multiyear endeavor comes when Americans are reevaluating community histories.
In 2018, the Boulder City Council approved the $5.2 million purchase of the property. Prior to the sale, the property served as a farm and a home for less fortunate county residents.
The city plans to change the marker on the site to accurately describe Company D’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre. They are seeking input from Tribal Nations regarding development plans. The city says there will also be opportunities for public engagement. Officials expect planning efforts to conclude at the end of 2023.
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“It’s the same old story. It is, the government says to the Native people, “this is your land, but we will dictate what to do with that land.””
Elouise Cobell was a Blackfeet warrior, and lead plaintiff in a groundbreaking class-action suit which challenged the United States’ mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans. She pursued the suit from 1996, challenging the government to account for fees from resource leases. In 2010 the government approved a record breaking $3.4 billion settlement for the trust case.
Cobell and her fight is the subject of 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice.
Melinda Janko, the producer and director of the film, told KGNU’s Maeve Conran that the story began in the 19th century when the United States government decided to manage the millions of acres of land that had been allocated to Native peoples. The land was rich of natural resources, but Native peoples were never given compensation for development on the land.
“They were never consulted by any oil companies or anybody who signed a contract to use their land through the government. They were never consulted.”
In 1996, the Indian Trust became the subject of the largest class action suit ever filed against the Federal Government. Cobell who was the lead plaintiff in the case, thought the lawsuit would only take a few years, but in reality it lasted fifteen years.
“Each administration didn’t want this thing. They knew they had the liability, and no administration wanted this to blow up on their watch.”
Janko says the parallels between Cobell’s story and what is happening now at Standing Rock are incredibly similar.
“It’s the same old story. It is, the government says to the Native people, “this is your land, but we will dictate what to do with that land” and it’s the same story at Standing Rock as it was back in the 19th century when they created this trust.”
- play_arrow100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for JusticeKGNU News The film will be screened at the Arvada Center for the Arts this Friday, February 10, 2017 at 7:00pm. It will be followed by a discussion with Producer and Director, Melinda Janko, and John E. Echohawk, Executive Director and Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder. More information can be found at www.arvadacenter.org
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Understanding Historical Trauma: How American Indian Communities Are Changing the Legacy is the subject under discussion on Friday January 20th in Boulder as part of the monthly Interface series which happens on the 3rd Friday of every month at the Naropa campus in North Boulder.
This month, Elicia Goodsoldier will discuss historical, intergenerational trauma and its impact on successive generations of Native Americans.
“Historical trauma is the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding of individuals, or of a group, or a generation that has been caused by traumatic events or traumatic experiences. Intergenerational trauma is that trauma that gets passed from generation to generation. So when we look at Native communities, in particular, you can almost bet that all of the Native people that are living today, are living with that historical trauma and that intergenerational trauma and each generation has experienced its own sort of trauma.”
Goodsoldier says that historical trauma is compounded by ongoing oppression experienced by Native Americans. “There are so many parallels that you can draw from the experiences at Standing Rock, and the historical experiences that our ancestors have experienced. One of the things that I heard from an elder at Standing Rock, said, “150 years ago they were taking our children from the land, and today they’re taking the land from our children”, and so, to me, that said a lot, that we’re not past all of these, this historical trauma or the traumas that we experience day to day.”
Having been a former board member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, she has seen how trauma from the forced removal of Native children from their homes into these schools has impacted successive generations. The boarding schools started in the early 1800s as a way for the United States government to forcibly assimilate Native Americans by taking Native children from their home, from their culture, from their families, and putting them in the boarding schools.
By the turn of the turn of the century, it’s been estimated that over 100 thousand Native children were forcefully removed from their homes and taken to these boarding schools.
“There was lots of abuse that occurred physically, emotionally, sexually, that occurred within the schools. Children didn’t grow up with their language or their customs, their traditions, their spirituality, and many of them, if they came home, brought back a lot of the destructive behaviors that they learned at the school, and many were ashamed of their Indian-ness, I guess you could say.”
Goodsoldier says there have been efforts in Colorado to help heal the trauma experienced by Native Americans.
“I think one of the very first things is to acknowledge the history and to acknowledge the trauma. I always use Gov. Hickenlooper’s apology for the Sand Creek Massacre as an example of beginning that healing. Cheyenne and Arapahoe people had waited 150 years for somebody to acknowledge that atrocity, acknowledge that trauma…And I believe that a return to our culture, our language, our spirituality is also one of those ways that we can begin that healing…One of the reasons I do these talks is so people begin to understand, and hope that these event or these traumatic events that got us to this place will never happen again…people being able to openly sit and listen and hear the experiences and understand why things in our community exist the way they do.”
- play_arrowUnderstanding Historical TraumaKGNU News Goodsoldier is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and also belongs to the Spirit Lake Dakota tribe. She Co-Chairs the Denver American Indian Commission and recently completed an appointment to the Governor’s Commission to Study American Indian Representations in Public Schools. She sits on the Cultural Competency Advisory Council for the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health. She is the program coordinator for PERL (People Engaged in Raising Leaders), a program under the Community Action Programs, Boulder County.
She will speak on Friday January 20th as part of the monthly Interface series at the Naropa north Boulder campus.
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Thousands of Coloradans converged in downtown Denver on Thursday September 8th, to express solidarity for the activists opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline or DAPL.
The marchers were led by tribal elders from across the statein four groups, wearing red, yellow, black and white. Once there, they danced, sang, played drums and burned sage and culminated at the state capitol.
At the rally, State Representative Joe Salazar said the Colorado Oil and Gas Association is “full of lies” for saying that such pipelines are safe. Native activists who have visited Standing Rock, including several youth, described seeing demonstrators attacked by dogs and pepper spray.
The 1,100 mile pipeline would run from western North Dakota to Illinois and is expected to cost $3.8 billion dollars. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe filed a lawsuit against the pipeline in on the grounds that it violates federal land preservation acts and will cause environmental damage. Federal Judge James Boasberg granted a temporary, partial injunction against construction of the pipeline last weekend, and is expected to announce his final ruling on the tribe’s lawsuit later today.
- play_arrowFour Directions March in Denver in support of Standing Rock protestKGNU News Photos and audio by Elena Klaver.
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“Most of us didn’t grow up with any knowledge or recognition of Sand Creek Massacre.” Tom Hayden, the only great-great grandson of Colorado Governor John Evans (in office 1862-1865) died at home on February 29, 2015 of unknown causes at […]
Governor John Hickenlooper has apologized on behalf of the state of Colorado for the Sand Creek Massacre. Native American tribal members ran to the state capitol to mark the 150th anniversary of the massacre, which was one of the most […]
Hundreds of people gathered in Eads Colorado on Saturday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. KGNU’s Elena Klaver was there and spoke with one Cheyenne and Arapaho elder who had traveled from Oklahoma for the ceremony. […]
Governor Hickenlooper became the first Colorado Governor to publicly apologize to descendants of those massacred at Sand Creek 150 years ago. Addressing Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members at a ceremony at the state capitol on Wednesday the Governor said that “We should […]
The anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, and particularly the 150th anniversary is a time for everyone in Colorado and indeed the American West to reflect on what happened to Native Americans in the settling of the American West. Denver […]
On Tuesday night at the Denver Art Museum about 200 people gathered for a candlelight vigil to welcome the runners who were participating in the healing run to commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. The runners […]
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Boggsville Historic Site in Bent County, Colo., a National Treasure. The Santa Fe Trail trading village is deemed as being significant because of its history of being a mixture of peoples and cultures, […]
U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell sponsored the 1998 legislation to establish a Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The site opened to the public in 2007. Senator Campbell, who is of Cheyenne ancestry, says that every Cheyenne and Arapahoe bears the […]
On Saturday, November 15th 1pm-3:30 pm Motus Theater and The Boulder Public Library Present: Part One of Rocks Karma Arrows Film & Panel Discussion on the Legacy of Sand Creek at the Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library: 1001 Arapahoe Ave, […]
The Sand Creek Massacre occurred at dawn on November 29, 1864, approximately 675 U.S. volunteer soldiers (including Boulder’s local Company D) attacked a village of about 700 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. Over the […]
It’s been almost 150 years since the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek Colorado. Colonel John Milton Chivington was the main person behind the atrocity, but this year a closer look has been taken at the role of John […]
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and […]
The Governor named Colorado’s 8th poet laureate at the state capitol today. Bente Birkeland has more. More on the announcement below: DENVER – Tues., Sept. 9, 2014 – Governor John Hickenlooper today announced the appointment of Joseph Hutchison as Colorado’s […]