Aftert surviving the Sand Creek Massacre, Amache Prowers became an activist and cultural connector in Colorado.
The City of Denver will christen a future Green Valley Ranch park as Amache Prowers Memorial Park in honor of the nineteenth century Native American rights activist and Sand Creek Massacre survivor.
The $8 million park, approved by Denver City Council earlier this week, will open along the intersection of South Kittredge Street and East Boiling Drive, two residential streets near Green Valley Ranch’s border with Montbello, just north of Interstate 70 and Airport Boulevard. Prowers, also known as Walking Woman, is known for helping survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. She also protected and passed on Colorado’s Indigenous history and traditions while trying to bridge cultures during the state’s formative years…