One hundred charred tipi skeletal frames (brought from the Black Hills of South Dakota) and over thirty historic markers placed alongside the City and County Building and State Capitol in Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, Colorado, from October 10-12, 1992. The Quincentenary Project was a collaboration with Dave Greenlund, the American Indian Movement of Colorado, and the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics at the University of Colorado at Denver. Funding provided by the Chinook Fund. The Quincentenary Project was reviewed by CNN, USA Today, AP, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, High Performance, Public Art Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Z Magazine. Video by Lori Windle.
There’s a little matter of genocide that’s got to be taken into account right here at home. I’m talking about the genocide which has been perpetrated against American Indians, a genocide that began the instant the first of Europe’s boat people washed up on the beach of Turtle Island, a genocide that’s continuing right now, at this moment.”
–Russell Means, American Indian Movement, October 12, 1992.
–John Berger
