Right Relationship Boulder
Building Relationships with Native Peoples
Our Mission
We are Indigenous and non-Native people working with individuals, local organizations, and governments to support Indigenous Peoples’ connection to land, raise Indigenous voices, and practice right relationships with the Native peoples who lived in the Boulder Valley historically and those who live here today.
Vision Statement
The people of Boulder Valley are committed to building lasting relationships with Indigenous Peoples based on justice and collaboration.
Values Statements
Right relationship means:
* Acknowledging the irreducible and ongoing relationship that Indigenous Peoples have with their land and territory.
* Following the guidance of and supporting Indigenous-led initiatives and being accountable to Indigenous Peoples in our words and actions.
* Listening to and learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Wisdom.
Land Acknowledgement
We are Indigenous and non-Native people working with individuals, local organizations, and governments to support Indigenous Peoples’ connection to land, raise Indigenous voices, and practice right relationships with the Native peoples who lived in the Boulder Valley historically and those who live here today.
Would you like to get Involved?
Guided by our mission, Right Relationship Boulder engages in a wide variety of activities, some of them ongoing and others more circumscribed. Our volunteer work is sectioned into working groups.
Central to RRB's ongoing activities are the efforts of our Working Groups. Each group is focused on a particular area of work whose aim is to foster Right Relationship. The working groups meet regularly to plan activities and then work with the community towards their goals.
Working Groups:
Painting of the Sand Creek Massacre on elk hide by Northern Arapaho artist Eugene J. Ridgely Sr. (Eagle Robe), 1994.
Coordinating Council
Co-Founders: Paula Palmer and Jerilyn DeCoteau, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
Communications: Laurie Rugenstein and Brigid Mark, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
Land Group: Laurie Rugenstein and Cathy Zimmerman, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
Cultivating Connections Group: Sallie Robinson Ward, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
Education and Schools Group: Currently on hiatus, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
Public Events Group: Brigid Mark, rightrelantionshipboulder@gmail.com
We thank our Fiscal sponsor, Mediators Foundation