All over the United States, we occupy lands that are recognized by treaty as the territories of Indigenous Nations. For Native American Heritage Month, BHGR wanted to recognize the territories of Indigenous Nations that our offices occupy.
Boulder/Denver Office
Many of the early tribes were offshoots or allies of each other, making it more difficult to differentiate between the tribes. The main groups who occupied the Greater Denver area, however, were the Apaches, Utes, Cheyennes, Comanches, and Arapahoes.
Picture Group of Arapaho men with Chief Goes-in-Lodge are staged during an early Tim McCoy film around the 1920s. Source: Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Department.
Cheyenne Office
The land that our Cheyenne office occupies is the unceded territory of the
Cheyenne Camp, 1870. Source: wyohistory.org
San Diego Office
Most of central, southern, and east San Diego County is Kumeyaay territory; most of North County is Luiseño traditional homelands.
Southern California Native American Kumeyaay Indians in aboriginal tribal regalias, 1873. Source: http://www.kumeyaay.info/
Irvine Office
Our Irvine office is located on the homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples, who, in the face of ongoing settler colonialism, continue to claim their place and act as stewards of their ancestral lands as they have for the past 8,000 years.
Clarence H. Lobo (1912–1985). Source: wikipedia.org
