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Buffalo Soldiers: reVision is a museum exhibit, book, and film that explores the complicated history of Buffalo Soldiers in the West. During American westward expansion, cavalries of Buffalo Soldiers participated in the removal of Indigenous peoples—a history artists are trying to reckon with.
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Jonathan P. Thompson of the Land Desk started looking into the history of ski areas in southwest Colorado. He was reminded of how much different developing a ski area was 60 years ago and also of how many little ski hills have been lost to history.
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A new archaeological discovery announced in November has rocked the Basque community. The hand of Irulegi, found on a dig near Pamplona is shedding new light on the origins of the Basque language and its people who wasted no time turning the artifact into memes.
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The process of getting Amache under the National Park Service umbrella involved years of effort. It means more funding for preservation in the short term. But no matter who administers the site, everyone involved hopes the survivors – and their stories – stay front and center.
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It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors, and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history there.
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The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is something many don’t know about. The descendants of those imprisoned at Amache are sharing their family stories and helping to shed light on this dark period in history.
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The Sand Creek Massacre is the deadliest day in Colorado's history. On Nov. 29, 1864, a peaceful group of Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked by U.S. troops despite being promised protection by the military. On that day, more than 230 indigenous women, children, and elders were slaughtered.
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A public memorial and reflection takes place Sunday, October 9, in Boulder to explore the truth of Boulder’s role in The Sand Creek Massacre. The event comes days after the announcement of a significant expansion of the national historic site that commemorates the massacre.
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New research has uncovered more on the history of Moab pioneer William Grandstaff. The Black cowboy made his home on the Colorado plateau in the late 1800s.
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A 1946 report called for the Colorado River System to be dammed, diverted, and industrialized.
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In this KSUT Conversation for Women’s History Month, we spoke to Mancos resident Lisa Moore, who started the first disco for women in the Mile High City.
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Archaeologists have studied ties between Ancestral Pueblo culture and archaeoastronomy.