Listen: Download Audio Flood Watch Continues For Denver Area Thursday’s steady rainfall made it the wettest day in Denver since March 14, 2021. According to The Denver Post, the storm that began Wednesday has dumped almost 20 percent of Denver’s […]
On today’s Morning Magazine, we hear about a Denver charter school for predominantly Native American students that’s in danger of closing less than three years after it opened. After that, today marks another anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, the […]
On today’s Morning Magazine, we’ll hear from an Arapaho elder participating in a weekend full of Indigenous arts events and happenings at the Dairy Arts Center. Then, for this first Friday in October, we’ll join Boulder Naturalist Ruth Carol Cushman […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
