Fort Garland, a former military outpost turned museum and cultural center has an unlikely new exhibit titled "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado” — one of the first dedicated to highlighting the little-known and centuries-old system of Indigenous bondage that historian Andrés Reséndez called “the other slavery” in his landmark 2016 book.

On a particular October afternoon, the quarters were redolent with smoke from a healing ceremony performed by a Navajo spiritual leader for the descendants from many tribes who had gathered this day to honor the grim history of kidnapping, enslavement, and forced assimilation of their ancestors. Though glorified for decades, Christopher Carson, known as Kit, briefly commanded this far-flung garrison built during the American westward expansion to protect settlers from raids by tribes. Carson led a devastating 1864 U.S. military campaign to defeat Navajo resistance and remove Indigenous people from their homelands.
More unfavorable American history but the story must be told. Interesting reading if one likes to Google historic stories.