Powwow offers chance for ‘both sides’ to come together

This weekend’s Smoking River Pow Wow will be a homecoming of sorts.
“I think it’s good to come together as a people who once lived there and the people who live there now,” said Jonas Grant, a descendant of the Utes who were here at the time of the Meeker Massacre.
Grant attended last year’s inaugural powwow. For him, as perhaps it was for many of the Utes who returned to the White River Valley,…