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PHOTOS: Planting of a Promise Tree in Manitou Springs

By October 8, 2023 | updated 3 years ago

Indigenous people of many tribes and local Manitou Springs residents gather for the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Indigenous people of many tribes and local Manitou Springs residents gather for the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Indigenous people of many tribes and local Manitou Springs residents gather for the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
The Peace Tree to be planted is a young cottonwood. Ute Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch explained why they were planting specifically a cottonwood: “It is the one we use in our sacred sun dances; it is the tree of life.” (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
The Peace Tree to be planted is a young cottonwood. Ute Ute spiritual leader Larry Cesspooch explained why they were planting specifically a cottonwood: “It is the one we use in our sacred sun dances; it is the tree of life.” (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Mama Bear of the Nakawe smiles in conversation with a local before the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree Ceremony,’ at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, October 8, 2023. Mama Bear went around to the attendees before the ceremony smudging them and the cottonwood to be planted with burning sage. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Mama Bear of the Nakawe smiles in conversation with a local before the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree Ceremony,’ at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, October 8, 2023. Mama Bear went around to the attendees before the ceremony smudging them and the cottonwood to be planted with burning sage. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
An attendee wears an intricately beaded flower necklace to the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree Ceremony,’ at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, October 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
An attendee wears an intricately beaded flower necklace to the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree Ceremony,’ at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, October 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Attendees of the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony embrace at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Attendees of the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony embrace at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Southern Ute and Cherokee descendant Marguerite Cantu of Colorado Springs looks to the sun during the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Cantu is the granddaughter of the well-know Chief Buckskin Charlie, one of the last traditional indigenous chiefs of the Ute tribe in the Manitou Springs area and a leader in dedicating the Ute Indian Trail in 1912. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Southern Ute and Cherokee descendant Marguerite Cantu of Colorado Springs looks to the sun during the ‘Planting of the Peace Tree,’ ceremony at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Cantu is the granddaughter of the well-know Chief Buckskin Charlie, one of the last traditional indigenous chiefs of the Ute tribe in the Manitou Springs area and a leader in dedicating the Ute Indian Trail in 1912. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Larry Cesspooch gives a prayer to the cottonwood, ‘Peace Tree,’ at the beginning of the planting of the peace tree ceremony in Mansion Park of Manitou Springs, Colo. for Indigenous People’s Weekend on Sunday’s Oct. 8, 2023. 12 native nations gathered for the ceremony that was lead by Arrow Priest Joe David Osage and featured the Howell family of the White River Northern Ute tribe singing an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Larry Cesspooch gives a prayer to the cottonwood, ‘Peace Tree,’ at the beginning of the planting of the peace tree ceremony in Mansion Park of Manitou Springs, Colo. for Indigenous People’s Weekend on Sunday’s Oct. 8, 2023. 12 native nations gathered for the ceremony that was lead by Arrow Priest Joe David Osage and featured the Howell family of the White River Northern Ute tribe singing an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
12 native nations gather on Ute land to plant a cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ in Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The ceremony was lead by Arrow Priest Joe David Osage and featured the Howell family of the White River Northern Ute tribe singing an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
12 native nations gather on Ute land to plant a cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ in Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The ceremony was lead by Arrow Priest Joe David Osage and featured the Howell family of the White River Northern Ute tribe singing an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Descendent of the Chippewa, Apache, Yaqui and Ute is spiritual medicine man James Cantu of Colorado Springs; Cantu gives a blessing to the Peace Tree and the hole the tree will be buried in before the formal ceremony begins. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Descendent of the Chippewa, Apache, Yaqui and Ute is spiritual medicine man James Cantu of Colorado Springs; Cantu gives a blessing to the Peace Tree and the hole the tree will be buried in before the formal ceremony begins. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Attendees sprinkle blessings of tobacco leaf into the hole where a cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ is to be planted in Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Attendees sprinkle blessings of tobacco leaf into the hole where a cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ is to be planted in Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
The cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ is placed in the ground at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
The cottonwood ‘Peace Tree,’ is placed in the ground at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Dowie Howell of the White River Northern Ute holds the family dog at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Howell’s family sang an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land as the blessings of tobacco leaf were cast into the hole the cottonwood ‘Peace Tree’ was placed in moments later. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
Dowie Howell of the White River Northern Ute holds the family dog at Mansions Park in Manitou Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Howell’s family sang an honor song of their ancestors who lived on this land as the blessings of tobacco leaf were cast into the hole the cottonwood ‘Peace Tree’ was placed in moments later. (Gabi Broekema, The Gazette) (Gabi Broekema)
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