Important context for the Joan Scheer "Oh Shinnah Fastwolf" story:
Her people were from Germany, Ireland, England. They moved to Colorado to exploit the land, seeking silver and gold wealth.
The area Indigenous people were then "displaced from their ancestral hunting grounds" and "force marched to Utah".
( Historical info:
https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/brunot-agreementhttps://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/blm/co/10/chap5.htm )
Her people (4 generations in mining country Colorado) can be tracked through vital records, census, lode mining claims, and Silverton newspaper articles. This is where Joan Scheer was born. These are her people. All of them white colonizers.
