history
-
Protection or overreach? In western Colorado, national monument proposal ignites controversy
—
by
Sean Pond was around a small town of his native western Colorado when he spotted a man in a blue ball cap. Above the bill were the words at the center of an ongoing controversy: “PROTECT THE DOLORES.” Pond approached the man. “He said someone at REI just gave it to him and he liked…
-
New tribal liaison in southern Colorado: ‘You are responsible for learning this history’
—
by
When Jason Herbert is meeting with tribal members on their lands, he prefers not to wear his U.S. Forest Service uniform, despite whatever agency guidelines suggest in the case of official business. “It’s not disrespect to the Forest Service. I’m really proud to work for the Forest Service,” Herbert says. It’s just that he knows…
-
New tribal liaison in southern Colorado: ‘You are responsible for learning this history’
—
by
When Jason Herbert is meeting with tribal members on their lands, he prefers not to wear his U.S. Forest Service uniform, despite whatever agency guidelines suggest in the case of official business. “It’s not disrespect to the Forest Service. I’m really proud to work for the Forest Service,” Herbert says. It’s just that he knows…
-
LGBTQ references removed from Colorado social studies standards for grades K-3
—
by
When Colorado’s revised social studies framework is presented to the state Board of Education on Tuesday, it will not include a proposed revision that would have allowed discussion about LGBTQ people’s historical contributions and issues in lower-grade civics and social studies classes. The Social Studies Standards Review and Revision Committee has withdrawn its plans to…
-
Descendants of Utah massacre victims see likely gravesites
—
by
Nearly 160 years after the massacre of a wagon train in southern Utah, the pioneers’ descendants got their first glimpse of what is believed to be their gravesites. Descendants of the Mountain Meadows Massacre victims gathered Saturday about 35 miles southwest of Cedar City to look at piles of rocks. Those rocks could likely be where…
-
Some civil rights sites at risk of being lost to history
—
by
A once-thriving all-black settlement in the New Mexico desert is a ghost town that rarely appears on maps. Tour buses pass but never stop at a Houston building where Latino activists planned civil rights events. Motels that welcomed minority motorists along 1950s Route 66 sit abandoned. From a Civil War battlefield where Hispanic Union soldiers fought to birthplaces…
