The City of Boulder invites community members to help prioritize ideas, stories and perspectives that will shape an educational, reflective and healing trail on the city’s Fort Chambers/Poor Farm site, which has a direct community connection to the Sand Creek Massacre.
Community members can help prioritize ideas previously shared by the public and shape what will be represented along the trail through:
- A community workshop that will be facilitated by Ernest House Jr., director of the Center for Tribal and Indigenous Engagement at the Keystone Policy Center. It will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, at the Open Space and Mountain Parks Hub, 2520 55th St.
- An online questionnaire open through Monday, June 30, inviting the public to reflect on and prioritize community members’ ideas shared earlier this year.
This phase of the interpretative project builds on community input gathered earlier this year where community members were asked to share their ideas, stories, and perspectives for healing trial interpretative elements. Now understanding the breadth of potential stories, the city is seeking additional guidance to help determine which ideas, stories or themes should be featured along the planned “healing trail.” Read community input gathered earlier this year.
The trail is a key element of a collaborative stewardship plan developed with Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribal Representatives last year. The plan guides how the city will care for the Fort Chambers / Poor Farm site—land where more than 100 Boulder-area men trained before participating in the Sand Creek Massacre.