November 2025 Edition
Welcome to the first newsletter of the Uprooting Qahr experience! Uprooting Qahr calls in the heart and the head reconnecting the ties that bind our human experiences – past, present, and future.
We are so grateful to have your attention and support, especially given the information overload we all experience!
These monthly newsletters are intended to be simple and easy to digest. Designed to deepen connection to our own lineage, legacies, and communities.
What to expect:
- Project Updates
- Upcoming Events
- Ways to Engage
We are with you on this collective path of learning, unlearning, and relearning intergenerational systems of oppression that have entangled people and the planet. We are also with you as we reimagine and co-create pathways forward that center shared humanity and collective liberation for all living beings.
May our hearts be connected and strong.
Oh, the Places We’ll Go: Reconnecting Roots
Traveling from the Colorado Rockies to West Asia to the Deep South, we navigate the promise of democracy, the spread of colonialism, and reclaim pathways to liberty and justice for all.
Through film, music, and narratives, this work unpacks Qahr: the sadness, frustration, anger caused by displacement, dispossession and discrimination while also shining a light of hope towards collective liberation. A sadness that lingers across generations. A hope that never extinguishes.
Together, we examine how human rights, education, environmental, and policy can both oppress and liberate. We also share insights and strategies on how to recognize, repair, and atonement at the individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels of change.
“Qahr” (or “QAHR”) is an Arabic and Farsi word for mixed feelings of anger, rage, and sadness, which carries a deeper sense of injustice and collective suffering with no direct English equivalent.
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Upcoming Performances: FREE Public Preview on 12/20
We just learned that the venue we secured for the 12/20/2025 FREE public preview has been cancelled. Worry not as we align with the uni-verse and this call for a change in location.
We are actively seeking a new location that can seat at least 80-100 people on 12/20 from 1:30-3:30 pm MT in the City of Boulder, Colorado. If you know of a venue that can host, please email team@mukuyucollective.com. In the interim, we have decided to keep registration OPEN. We will be somewhere and would LOVE for you to join us! Click the link to register and please feel free to spread the word.
Upcoming Community Engagement: Join Taishya Adams, creative director and producer, to Honor Truthsgiving on 11/29
Pictured above top row: the United American Indians of New England doing their annual Day of Mourning. Second row: drawing of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and a photo from an annual spiritual healing run done by the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations.
Uprooting Qahr weaves across the Indigenous diaspora with a focus on Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, Aztec, Muscogee, and the Tribes of the African continent. We acknowledge and mourn the loss of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We mourn the colonial settlements and illegal expansions that allow the United States to grow.
Join us on Saturday, November 29th in Denver. There will be a vigil for the Sand Creek Massacre 6:30-8pm. This is a chance for us to collectively sit with the presence of Qahr here on the Front Range of Colorado. To learn more about Tribes of Colorado, visit the Truth, Restoration, and Education Reports in collaboration with the People of the Sacred Land commission.
Learn more about the vigil here
Uprooting Qahr honors the Indigenous people within the Tribes of Turtle Island and around the world. As we approach the Day of Mourning, we join the mighty liberation chorus calling for self-determination, land back, reconciliation, and reparations. Visit our Reflections on In(ter)dependence Day 2025 blog post for more on our interconnection and calls to action.
Frontline Org of the Month: Harvest of All First Nations
Harvest of All First Nations (HAFN) is focused on Indigenous-led reparations, rematriation, and Earth-based decolonization for the benefit of the people of the global majority communities for cultural education and health equity.
HAFN is a grassroots community-led, community driven organization guided by the council of leaders creating change for people of the global majority and disinvested communities in the Boulder/Denver/ Front Range areas, and beyond. To learn more, donate, volunteer, and/or connect, please click here. You can also watch a film they stewarded called, “Voices of the Land: The Unspoken Stories of Boulder.” .
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Thank you for joining us on this journey! Your presence is a present. As we go down this path together, let us be open to the many teachers along the way.
Stay tuned as we offer exclusive content, in gratitude, to our paying Patreon members. Our largest contributors will be the first to access behind the scenes video and performance clips of the last Private Preview on 11/18!
We are one!
