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Once dedicated to commemorating Kit Carson, the Fort Garland Museum's new exhibit acknowledges the brutal effects that westward expansion and settler-colonialism had on Indigenous and Native Americans.
Fort Garland museum brings to light dark history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado" now on display History Colorado. and last updated 2021-07-03 00:44:04-04 DENVER -- In southern Colorado, near the border with New Mexico, sit two counties: Costilla and Conejos, with a history rarely talked about but which was recently revealed through the discovery of census forms. The forms are dated 1865, when Colorado was a U.S. territory, long before becoming a state in 1876. This was also after the Civil War and after the Emancipation Proc...
Artist jetsonorama creates new installation at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center Juan Carson, an enslaved Navajo youth (center) and Gabriel Woodson, an enslaved Navajo person in the San Luis Valley, circa 1880 (right). From Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center (June 2021ongoing). Image: History Colorado. FORT GARLAND, COLO .- A new installation by artist jetsonorama is now on view at History Colorado's Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center in the San Luis Valley. Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado...