100 Years of Silence: The Aniknuche Incarceration

Join us at the Bears Ears Education Center for a special presentation from the 100 Years of Silence project, on Thursday, August 28 at 7pm. The 100 Years of Silence Project commemorates the hundred-year-plus anniversary of the forcible removal of Ute people from the Bears Ears area, and this presentation will focus on The Aniknuche Incarceration.

The exhibit will be on display at the BEEC starting August 28 until October, and is open to the public during the BEEC’s hours (Thursday-Monday 9am-4pm).

For six weeks in 1923 San Juan County settlers held the Aniknuche people in a makeshift prison camp, and federal officials shipped their children to boarding schools. Up until now, the Ute people have not fully told its version of this history.

Presenters include Angelo Baca (Navajo/Hopi), Communications Director for 100 Years of Silence, and Jedediah Rogers, an environmental and public historian.

Join us as we explore through history and virtual media this powerful, untold chapter of American history—one that forces us to rethink what we know about the so-called “last Indian War” and the resilience of a people who refused to disappear.

Learn more at 100YearsofSilence.com and https://bearsearspartnership.org/events/public-events/100-years-of-silence-exhibit-presentation

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