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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:44 p.m.

Students raise their hands to show that they know someone who has been deported. Thousands walked out of class to attend a rally on the Auraria campus in response to the repeal of DACA, Sept. 5, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Six months and counting: How Coloradans are planning for the end of DACA

We asked DACA recipients and those who support them about their next steps as the Trump administration announced the program's impending end.

A statue of a Union soldier near the Colorado State Capitol once praised the "Battle of Sand Creek." In fact, it was a massacre. (Wolfram Stumpf/Wikimedia Commons)

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After protests, Colorado made changes to its Sand Creek Massacre monument, but Confederate memorials remain

The war's dark legacy lives on in several ways here -- from small Confederate memorials to memories of a Union massacre of indigenous people.