This page serves as a place for the Niwot, Boulder Valley, and Denver Metro communities to learn more about building meaningful relationships with Tribal Nations and Native communities. These resources offer direct access to learning about Tribal and Native communities today, broken treaties, the colonization of Indigenous lands, and our region’s deep connection to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre—one of the most tragic events in Colorado and United States history.
These reports and resources provide deeper context for Indigenous perspectives, Boulder Valley history, Denver history, Sand Creek, and contemporary Tribal relationships.
As urged by Cheyenne and Arapaho Elders Fred Mosqueda and Chester Whiteman, true partnership requires actively including Indigenous perspectives within our Boulder Valley historic storytelling. The Tribal Ethnographic-Education Report — co-developed with Tribal Nations — offers direct insight into their history and enduring connections to the Boulder Valley and Colorado.
Denver’s We Are the Land report documents the enduring presence and cultural resurgence of American Indian communities while directly confronting the city’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre and forced displacement. Exploring this history through Native perspectives is the necessary first step toward genuine community healing.
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The Building Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Niwot Relationships initiative in Niwot, Colorado, is a community-led effort to help the town—named after Southern Arapaho Chief Nowoo3—build partnerships with the Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribes through meaningful, truthful historical storytelling. This effort included a landmark community gathering in March 2025, with a second dialogue planned for early 2027 alongside film-related community programming in Boulder, Colorado.
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Grounded in its 2016 Indigenous Peoples Day Resolution, the City of Boulder conducts government-to-government consultations with 16 American Indian Tribal Nations to honor sovereignty and co-author enduring landscape and educational policies. These collaborative efforts have driven key regional milestone projects—including the renaming of The Peoples’ Crossing, the development of the Fort Chambers Healing Trail, and the release of a comprehensive Tribal Ethnographic-Education Report—earning the city national recognition.
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An ongoing initiative expanding upon the historic 2021 Sister Cities relationship between Longmont and the Northern Arapaho Tribe. This first-of-its-kind program brings tribal elders from the Wind River Reservation together with local Longmont seniors to share cultural wisdom, honor community history, and foster long-term cross-cultural friendships.
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A summary of Broomfield’s collaborative efforts with tribal partners, including their newly adopted official City Council Land Acknowledgment, structural staff equity training, and delegations dedicated to building deep direct relationships with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
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The development of the United States’ first-ever American Indian Cultural Embassy, funded by Denver voters via the $20 million Vibrant Denver Bond package. Located on a ten-acre site near Denver International Airport, the embassy is designed as a living cultural campus and a true “homecoming” to establish a continuous government-to-government, nation-to-nation dialogue, welcome tribal members back to their historic homelands, and preserve Indigenous languages, arts, and land treaties.
Led by Ernest House, Jr. (Ute Mountain Ute Tribe), who was selected by the City of Denver to guide the overarching advisory planning and community vision for the future American Indian Cultural Embassy. This center works across Colorado to elevate Indigenous leadership, strengthen government-to-government tribal consultation frameworks, and ensure Native voices actively shape regional policy, cultural resource management, and land stewardship.
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Follow a source-based timeline of white settlement, broken treaties, Boulder County militia activity, Fort Chambers, and the events leading to the Sand Creek Massacre.
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A shorter, chapter-by-chapter reader pathway through Arapaho and Cheyenne homelands, Chief Nowoo3, Camp Weld, Fort Chambers, Sand Creek, Niwot’s founding, public memory, and relationship-building today.
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The complete seventeen-segment video archive of the National Park Service and National Museum of the American Indian symposium, with descendant voices, historians, and tribal leaders on causes, multigenerational impacts, memorialization, and public memory.
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Primary-source municipal consultation archives, the Boulder Tribal Ethnographic-Education Report, the Denver "We Are the Land" report, regional books and academic references, and video oral history conversations co-created with Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne Elders.
Academic researchers, public school educators, municipal analysts, local historians, and community members seeking accurate, source-grounded material on Boulder Valley, Niwot, and Front Range Tribal history.
A foundational City of Boulder report co-developed with Tribal Representatives and published in 2026 to center Indigenous perspectives in the region's documented history and inform municipal stewardship of culturally significant landscapes.
It honors Tribal data sovereignty by intentionally excluding sensitive sacred site information, ceremonial detail, and other materials that Tribal Representatives have asked not to be circulated publicly.