An Internship Training Project in Cultural Resource Interpretation
Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado and the National Park Service
The University of Colorado’s School of Public Affairs and the National Park Service are co-sponsoring a unique new higher education internship training project. Its purpose is to train as cultural resource interpreters college and university students whose family, clan, or tribe has a traditional cultural or historical affiliation with National Park Service facilities in the region – a relationship with these places that pre-dates their establishment as an NPS facility.
During the first phase of the project, the focus is on the training of students who are members of American Indian tribes having a traditional cultural affiliation with the places now known as Rocky Mountain National Park (Estes Park, CO); Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site (La Junta, CO); and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (Eads and La Junta, CO). Thus, during this first phase the Place and Native Voice (PNV) Project is seeking the participation of undergraduate or graduate college and university students who are members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Tribes; and other tribes of the Rocky Mountain Region and western Great Plains.