Thank you, Gold Hill for the years of support you have given our Historic Gold Hill Museum.  This year we are inviting you to attend our Community Outreach event on SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3^rd, at the home of Debra and Max Yeager. Our address is 1225 Pine Street and there is very limited parking. We are the last house on the west end of Pine Street.  Many of you have mentioned that you do not want to be in tight quarters due to the continuing virus.  Therefore, we are holding this event out of doors where we have electricity for our speaker.  Unfortunately this is the only place that we can do so in town and accommodate you.  Please be prepared for any kind of weather. 

Our topic this year is a solemn one, The Sand Creek Massacre.  We have some information on connections with Gold Hill and this most egregious moment in our history.  We ask that you are seated by 6:20 pm.   Our speaker will begin at 6:30 pm. The information that you will hear may be new to you and we suggest that this lecture may not be an appropriate one for small children. 

Because of the nature of this presentation, we will NOT be holding a cocktail party.  We will instead be offering you hot herbal tea.  We will also not have available items from our gift shop.  We ask you to please come and visit us at the museum at a later time to see the items that we have to offer this season and to view the new exhibits and artifacts on display this year. 

We are grateful and honored that our speaker, Rick Williams, will share this information with us. Here is Mr. William’s bio:

Leader of the People Sacred Land

 Richard “Rick” B. Williams, an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, is part Cheyenne. Rick is currently the Leader of the People of the Sacred land, a nonprofit in Colorado that is preparing a Truth Restoration and Education Commission to study the truth of what happened to Indian people in Colorado. In the past, he has served as the President & CEO of the American Indian College Fund (“Fund”).  The Fund, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Denver, Colorado, raises private support for scholarships, endowments, programs, and public awareness on behalf of the 34 U.S. Tribal colleges and universities. 

 Before joining the Fund, Mr. Williams served both as the director of the Student Academic Service Center and the director of Minority Student Affairs at the University of Colorado.  He has also served as the Director of American Indian Upward Bound, a program designed to provide educational opportunities to Indian youth.  Dedicated to Indian education, Mr. Williams continues to make time for involvement in programs and organizations targeting Indian youth and education. 

 Mr. Williams received an M.A. in Education Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Wyoming in 1987.  In 1975, he became the first American Indian student to graduate with a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.  In 1999, the University of Nebraska honored him with the Alumni Achievement Award and Distinguished Alumni Award. Rick was selected as the National Indian Education Association- Educator of the Year in 2005.   Rick was honored with an honorary PhD. from Roger Williams University in 2007. Rick loves doing historical research, is an advocate for Native Language Immersion programs, and is committed to becoming a fluent Lakota speaker.

 Thank you again Gold Hill for your interest in learning more about our storied history.  It is our mission statement to bring our history to you.

Historic Gold Hill, Inc.

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