“What Was Ours” is the story of how a young journalist, Jordan Dresser, and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future. Join Jordan for a talk-back after the film.

These final reports present the comprehensive findings of the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission (TREC) of Colorado, which, over the last two years, in collaboration with the People of the Sacred Land (PSL), has diligently examined the widely untold history of Colorado in order to uncover the causes of widespread land displacement and the genocide of Native peoples in the state.

Charles Cambridge (PhD, University of Colorado) is a 4/4 enrolled member of the Navaho Tribe in the Southwest United States.  He is Bitahnii (mother’s clan), born for Taneezahnii (father’s clan), his maternal grandfather is Todischiinii, and his paternal grandfather’s clan is Totsohnii.