Joyce Schuck News Today

Since 1949 local men, some of them cowpokes for the week and others horsemen and ranchers, have saddled up for a five-day mountain trail ride to support the Pikes Peak

Monycka Snowbird, left, argues against keeping the Cheyenne Mountain Indians mascot with a supporter, who declined to give her name, outside the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 board work session in the fall of 2020. Snowbird and the other indigenous people who attended the protest felt the mascot is racists against their heritage. Supporters of the mascot said the Indians mascot was an honor and full of school tradition. About 50 people lined the street outside the school district’s adm...