In honor of the Hub’s commitment to community awareness and healing, we would like to acknowledge the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes and their ancestral territory on which we now enjoy our professional community space.

As citizens of Colorado, we occupy lands that are recognized by treaty as the territories of Indigenous Nations including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute peoples. Consciously or unconsciously, we currently benefit from the historic and ongoing injustices committed against the Native peoples of this land.

The Arapaho, the main tribe of the Boulder Valley region, call themselves Hinono'eino (“our people”) and refer to their tribe as Hinono'eiteen (Arapahoe Nation). While the Hinóno'éí and Cheyenne tribal headquarters are now in Oklahoma, they continue to relate to Boulder, Colorado as their homeland. The local organization Right Relationship Boulder now welcomes the Hinóno'éí (Arapaho) people back to Boulder every year on Indigenous Peoples Day for gathering, celebration, and sharing!

The Boulder Healing Hub would like to honor Chief Left Hand (Nawath/Niwot), leader of the last Hinóno'éí band to spend their winters in the Boulder Valley. Many Hinóno'éí people were massacred by the US Cavalry at Sand Creek, Colorado, in 1864. The survivors were forced out of Colorado to reservations in Wyoming and Oklahoma, where most Hinóno'éí live today.

Please join us in remembering that Boulder Valley is home to the Hinóno'éí people and to other tribes that camped, hunted, and traded here for centuries. It is also important to remember that Native people of many Indigenous nations live here in Boulder today, and that Native cultures are not simply something of the past!

Local Boulder indigenous organizations we support!

There are many wonderful organizations based right here in Boulder, Colorado with a wealth of community outreach programing, resources to learn more about native history, and current indigenous activism!

In addition to Right Relationship Boulder organization mentioned above, the Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples Program is another local organization that has various amazing workshops they offer across the country, including the Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change event that the Boulder Healing Hub helped host in 2019 at the Boulder Public Library (see photos below). They have a great list of resources, books/film, and “doables” for becoming an agent of healing and an ally to indigenous peoples.

Finally, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado - though its scope is national. NARF provides legal assistance to Native tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise go without adequate representation. This wonderful non-profit organization focuses on applying existing laws and treaties to guarantee that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations.

Photos from the indigenous awareness event hosted by the Boulder Healing Hub and facilitated by Toward Right Relationship at the Boulder Public Library in 2019: Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change

Thank you for joining us in Boulder’s growing awareness of our shared history, and community responsibility to right relationship!