Meeker

Loose Ends: This is not what everyone remembers

Dolly Viscardi
“How do you re-enact a battle that no one won?” Roland McCook asked Meeker community members when the Ute historian and preservationist spoke at a luncheon a few years ago.
Things were just starting to move forward toward healing the relationship between the community and the White River Valley’s original inhabitants.
“The whole story hasn’t been told, you don’t know the Indian side of it,” McCook said.
He offered his thoughts on the…