29 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL RESOLUTION 0107

October 20, 1988

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
STUDENT UNION

Sponsored by:

Representatives-at-Large

Felicia Clark
Broderick Webb
Sean Murphy
Dawn Massop

Environmental Board
American Indian Science & Engineering Society
Ecological Living Group
Campus Democrats
Social Issues Forum
PLGE-People for Lesbian and Gay Equality
Rainforest Action Group (RAG)
Asian-Pacific American Coaltion (APAC)
World Citizens
Feminist Alliance
CISPES
Student Rights Coaltion (SRC)
Free South Africa Committee
Black Student Alliance
Central American Refugee Task Force
Arab Student's Club
Friendship City Project
Moviemiento Estudiantes Chicanos de Aztlan (MEChA)
Community in Action (C.I.A.)
Students Towards a New Direction (STAND)
United Mexican American Students (UMAS)
Coloradans for Language Freedom
Authored by:

Members

Oya te Indian Club
A RESOLUTION

Historians state that the Sand Creek Massacre was the most violent crime
committed against a nation of people in the United States. Both the Arapahoe and
Cheyenne peoples gave up their lives and their land for this University as well as
for this town of people. As of today there are no Native American people
commemorated on this campus. The University tells us that we cannot name that
Hall after a person who did not contribute in some way to this University, yet we
have a cafeteria in the UMC which is named after a cannibal - Alferd E. Packer.
We strongly believe that Native Americans should be commemorated on this
campus, as it is long overdue. We have taken time to speak with prominant
members of the Native American community, including: Native American Rights
Fund, the Board of Directors of the Denver Indian Center, Wallace CoffeyExecutive Director of the Denver Indian Center, the Parent Advisory Board
Committee for Title IV Indian Education, Chiefs of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Tribes. Once again we have their continued support in our struggle for the
renaming of this Hall, as we once had your support. We hope that you will continue
to support us.

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At this time we, the Oyate Indian Club and the 21 student groups supporting us,
recommend that the Hall be named CHEYENNE-ARAPAHOE HALL. We feel that
these people gave up their lives and their land which is perhaps the most valuable
contribution one can give. The land is our mother and she is sacred. We all come
from her no matter what color we are: red, black, brown, white or yellow. No
deed could be as valuable as the contribution of this part of Mother Earth that this
University is built on. Once again, we are asking for your understanding and your
support. We do not feel that we are asking for too much-we are only asking for
justice and what is right.
WHEREAS:

UCSU has supported Oyate Indian Club in their endeavors to
rename Nichols Hall and
UCSU has always deferred the important decisions in this
rna tter to Oya te Indian Club and
Oya te Indian Club and the other sponsors of this resolution
support only an Indian name or concept.
This campus would not have been built on this land if the
Cheyenne and Araphoe tribes had not given up their land and
No students would be at CU getting an education if it were not
for the sacrifice of these Native American people and
Oya te and the 21 supporting student groups still believe that
the Hall should be named in commeration of Native
Americans, THEREFORE,

WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Executive Council of the University of Colorado Student
Union, THAT:
SECTION 1:
UCSU endorses CHEYENNE-ARAPAHOE HALL in place of
Nichols Hall.
SECTION 2:
UCSU beleives that our decision should be in accordance with
that of the Oyate Indian Club because it was the ancestors of
some Native American students on this campus who gave their
land for the building of CU.
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UCSU Executive Council

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