His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he's among the leaders of Colorado Indigenous Land Back movement

Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgement. 

You’ve probably heard them at meetings or graduations. The idea is to take a few short minutes to acknowledge the land where you’re sitting was once home to Native tribes before white settlers came and built cities on top of it. 

Williams, an Oglala Lakota citizen with Cheyenne ancestry, is asked to do them a lot. Sometimes, he even does. It’s a chance for him to take the ideas presented in a typical land acknowledgement one step further. Read the full article here.