"I grew up with a lot of people who looked like me, or have last names like I have, and they would say that they are Spanish. They didn’t know about their indigenous or their Mexican background. I think this was a way to protect earlier generations from deep-seated racism in Denver. There was a forced cultural assimilation that happened here. It’s a form of cultural killing. If you can take a people, erase their history and who they are, they don’t have access to their power anymore."
—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, interviewed by Maria V. Luna for Electric Lit
Los Seis de Boulder Memorial Structure. Image used under the Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 4.0).