Area History

Boulder County is the homelands of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), and many Indigenous peoples. In the 1800s, white settlers and gold prospectors invaded the territory, violating treaties, brutalizing and murdering the native people, and spreading disease. Sponsored by the US Government, approximately 46 white settlers in Boulder and 675 federal troops slaughtered an estimated 230 Arapaho and Cheyenne people, including Arapaho Chief Niwot, in what is now known as the Sand Creek Massacre. Ultimately, the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute peoples were either brutally murdered or forced off of their homelands to reservations.

Our statement

Evolve In Nature acknowledges that the land on which we live, work, and recreate today has been inhabited by Indigenous people for more than 13,000 years. We honor and affirm the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Hinono'eino (Arapaho), and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) people and their belonging to the land referred to as Boulder Valley. We acknowledge the history of mistreatment and forced removal that has and continues to have a devastating impact on their communities.

Periodically, we donate portions of our profits to native tribes or to organizations advocating for the rights of Native people and protecting their ways of life as a gesture of remembrance and an action step toward right relationship. We believe that supporting all people to reconnect in a meaningful relationship with nature is foundational in healing past cultural trauma, nurturing the possibility for peaceful co-existence, and cultivating advocacy and support for the modern practices of Indigenous ways of life that consider a relationship with the earth as primary.

At Evolve In Nature, we seek to listen, understand and learn, which is work that remains ongoing. Your feedback is welcomed.