In Colorado, reconciliation for a displaced tribe
2008 July 31
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the White River Utes, a Native American tribe displaced from their ancestral homeland more than one hundred years ago, are making amends with the ranching community of Meeker responsible for their historical exile at gunpoint and the 1879 “Meeker Massacre.” While for now the two communities are increasing bonds over cultural exchanges, the intend to find common ground on grave and difficult questions – whether the Utes have a right to return to, hunt on, and harvest their former homeland – soon. The Ute spiritual advisor to the exchange invoked his predecessors in the spirit of renewal: “We did not forget you. Ancestors, the sound you will hear today is not of a gun – it is from a drum.”
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