Tag: Native American History
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New tribal liaison in southern Colorado: ‘You are responsible for learning this history’
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…
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A look at 20-plus Colorado 14ers named for people, as Evans change is contended
In 2017, Jeri Norgren discovered a personal, indirect connection to the controversy swirling around the name of one of Colorado’s highest peaks. A fifth-generation native and history buff, Norgren was a member at a meeting for the 141-year-old literary organization Denver Fortnightly Club. There was mention of the group’s “instrumental” role in christening Mount Evans.…
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‘The other Mesa Verde:’ Colorado’s lesser known, no less wondrous tribal park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TOWAOC • Some say the first people of the canyons never left. Not really. You don’t see them, the Ancestral Puebloans who made homes in the cliffs some 1,400 years ago. “But you can feel them,” says the woman at the ramshackle gas station-turned-visitor center here…
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Pikes Peak wasn’t always Pikes Peak: Explore its other names
The name is and will be the Pikes Peak Summit Complex. But from the many interpretive displays that will be inside and outside the under-construction, state-of-the-art building — opening is anticipated later next month — visitors will learn of other summit names that fell through the cracks of time. “It’s a way to let people…