What’s often missing from the conversations about colonization in the U.S. are rigorous, comprehensive, academically supported Native-led studies proving that— even through the lens of modern law— large areas of what we call the United States were truly stolen and remain illegally occupied. And nowhere in our country is the evidence and culpability more dramatic than in the state of Colorado.

PEOPLE of the SACRED LAND follows Richard Williams (Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne) as he recounts the widely untold history of Colorado through the findings of the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission (TREC) reports.