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Peoples History of the Grand Valley

Peoples History of the Grand Valley

The People of the Grand Valley's Struggles, Victories, and Movements for Change.

Category: BiPOC History

BiPOC History / October 28, 2022

History Written to Conclusion

Ken Johnson’s new book, Publishers: Walter and Preston Walker, The Daily Sentinel, is a self-published memoir and scrapbook masquerading as a history book.…

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Anti-War / May 11, 2022

Dreamers, Revolutionaries, and Humanitarians: a progressive history of the Grand Valley 1885-today.

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BiPOC History / May 6, 2022

Elizabeth Taylor’s Legacy of Resilience

The story of the West is far more pigmented and more feminine than Hollywood or the ‘guns and outlaws’ histories will every portray.…

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Anti-War / February 20, 2022

Vigilantes, Sugar Beets, and ‘Evacuees’: the Japanese Settlement of the Grand Valley, a story of Both Racism and Refuge

The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in December of 1941, led directly to one of the darkest moments in American history,…

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BiPOC History / February 9, 2022

It is Sometimes More About the Journey

“That was so f@%$ing Scooby-Doo,” I said to no one in particular. I had just gotten off the phone with a local woman…

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Anti-War / December 20, 2021

Why “A People’s History of the Grand Valley”

This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…

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BiPOC History / November 10, 2021

Escape is Resistance

In or around the 1st of November 1898, two Papago boys escaped from the Teller Institute (Indian Boarding School) here in Grand Junction.…

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BiPOC History / April 26, 2021

GJ Police Killings: The First 100 years

Grand Junction was just a couple years old when, in 1883, Town Marshal Tim Crowley shot and killed George Lewis, an African-American who…

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BiPOC History / April 5, 2021

Marijuana and the Grand Valley

Tomorrow residents of Grand Junction have a chance of reversing over a century of wrong-headed and racist marijuana laws, locally. It was 10…

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BiPOC History / March 29, 2021

Early Chinese Laundries, Target for Racist for Decades

May 31st 1885, John C. Montgomery carried out a census of the residents of the small dusty town of Grand Junction. Of the…

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