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Council names new Far Northeast Denver park 'Amache Prowers Memorial Park'
Summary
Denver City Council voted to name a planned 10‑acre park in Far Northeast Denver 'Amache Prowers Memorial Park'; proponents described the park as a community gathering space and cited the site's historical connections to the Cheyenne leader Amache Prowers.
Denver City Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously to name a new park in Far Northeast Denver "Amache Prowers Memorial Park," honoring Amache Prowers, a Cheyenne woman noted in historical records for advocacy and cross-cultural work in Colorado’s 19th‑century history.
The council adopted the naming by a recorded 10‑0 vote. The park site is in Council District 11; city staff and the applicant described it as a roughly 10‑acre community park in the Green Valley Ranch/Chambers area (the ordinance reports the park at the northwest corner of Kittredge Street and Bollinger Drive / Bowling Drive, in Far Northeast Denver).
Why it matters: Council members and multiple public speakers framed the naming as recognition of Indigenous history on land now governed by the city and as a corrective to long-standing erasure of Native histories in public spaces. Several descendants of Amache Prowers and members of Indigenous communities testified in favor of the…
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