john evans
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History Colorado to offer exhibit on Sand Creek massacre
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Ten days before the 158th anniversary of the Sand Creek massacre, History Colorado will open a new exhibit sharing the accounts of those who survived. The exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever, opens on Nov. 19. According to a news release from History Colorado, the exhibition draws from…
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State geographic naming board begins process of renaming Mount Evans
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A panel tasked with finding replacement names for geographic landmarks with names considered offensive began its process for reviewing suggested names for renaming Mount Evans. The move to find a new title for the Clear Creek County mountain named for Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans comes two years after Colorado’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board board was reconvened…
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Colorado panel begins work on name change for Mount Evans
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A Colorado panel is getting ready to take on the most controversial name change in its two-year history: Mount Evans. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, which is tasked with finding replacement names for geographic landmarks with names considered offensive, decided Thursday that it’s ready to start looking at six proposals for the renaming of Mount…
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Hillman lists lessons learned in Senate minority, transportation gets a subcommittee
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assistant Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman shared the “Lessons of a minority senator” he said he’d learned after the Democrats took the gavel in the upper chamber in January for the first time in decades. “In my days as a sportswriter,” he wrote, “this was…
