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Council OKs plan for Loretto Heights Public turns out for process of deciding future of former college campus BY DONNA BRYSON DENVERITE.COM

will include the renovated and reinstalled Northwest Coast and Alaska Native collection on the second level. The powwow started in 1990 after the passing of Scientific and Cultural Facilities District funds for the first time, as a way of celebrating the collection and the community connected to it. Over the years, it has grown as not only an arts and culture event, but also an educational event for the broader community. “Indigenous people are so often invisible in larger society even though they were the first people here and they never went anywhere,” Lukavic said.

Denver’s City Council has approved a vision meant to ensure that the legacy of Loretto Heights lives and that the area’s future includes affordable housing and beloved views. Even supporters of the Loretto Heights Small Area Plan expressed concerns, including about who got to participate in the process that created it and how questions about historic preservation and traffic would eventually be answered. The City Council vote came after a series of well-attended public meetings and initial approval from the Planning Board and the council’s Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure committee. More than 40 people signed up to make comments the night of Sept. 16. That and earlier feedback illustrated how strongly many in Denver feel about the area and about the hilltop educational campus at its heart. Preserving and respecting buildings, including a theater, of the Loretto Heights Academy, established by nuns more than a century ago, has

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Joseph Cyrus dances with the junior boys at the Sept. 7 Friendship Powwow in Denver.

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Showcase for a ‘vibrant culture’ Denver Art Museum event celebrates native culture, arts BY SHANNA FORTIER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

A steady beat resonated from the hide stretched out over large drums and bells on dresses jangled, giving native dancers a song as they entered the arena Sept. 7 at the 30th annual Friendship Powwow held at the Denver Art Museum. “Arts and culture for indigenous people are so intertwined,” said John Lukavic, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Native Arts for the museum.

“This is an opportunity for people to see some of that.” Lukavic said the event is an extension of what happens inside the museum. The American Indian Collection is the largest single collection at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. For a while, the museum’s identity was tied to that collection, Lukavic said. By next year’s Friendship Powwow, the renovated Martin Building — previously the North Building — is expected to be open, according to Lukavic. In November 2017, the north side of the Denver Art Museum campus closed to the public for major renovations. The renovated spaces will reopen in phases starting in 2020 and

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The Denver metro area had an unemployment rate of 2.6% in August, an improvement from 3.3% a year earlier.

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

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